Rethinking Class Cultures, Identities and

This collection considers the growing interest in the issue of culture in sociology and its implications for the study of class relations. Presenting recent empirical research conducted in Britain, Europe, America and Australia on class and the intersection between class, gender and race, it celebrates the emergence of new ways of knowing about social inequalities.

Fiona Devine is Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester.

Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology at Manchester University.

John Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex.

Rosemary Crompton is Professor of Sociology and Director of Research at City University.

List of Figures and Tables

viii

Notes on Contributors

ix

1 The Cultural Turn, Sociology and Class Analysis

Fiona Devine and Mike Savage

1

(23)

Consciousness and imagery

4

(6)

Habitus and identity

10

(7)

The contributions

17

(4)

Conclusion

21

(1)

Notes

22

(2)

2 Social Stratification and Social Inequality: Models of Intersectionality and Identity

Floya Anthias

24

(22)

Terminological issues in the study of inequality

25

(2)

What is a social division?

27

(1)

Boundaries and hierarchies

28

(3)

The reductionist model: explaining ethnicity and class

31

(1)

The intersectionality model

32

(5)

Identity model

37

(4)

Displacing the identity problematic: narratives of location

41

(3)

Concluding remarks: implications for the study of social inequality

44

(2)

3 The Re-Branding of Class: Propertising Culture

Beverley Skeggs

46

(23)

Rhetoric and re-presentations

49

(13)

Academic responses

62

(2)

So what are the consequences of this?

64

(2)

Conclusion

66

(1)

Notes

67

(2)

4 Class and Culture in Germany

Michael Vester

69

(26)

Research questions and methodology

70

(22)

Conclusions

92

(1)

Notes

93

(2)

5 Local Habitus and Working-Class Culture

Mike Savage, Gaynor Bagnall and Brian Longhurst

95

(28)

The working class in British society

97

(5)

Research methods

102

(17)

Conclusions

119

(2)

Notes

121

(2)

6 Memory Magic: How a Working-Class Neighbourhood Became an Imagined Community and Class Started to Matter when it Lost its Base

Talja Blokland

123

(17)

Introduction

123

(3)

Telling stories: some preliminary notes

126

(1)

Tales of community: how "we" were all "the same"

127

(1)

Tales of distinction: how "we" compared to "them"

128

(5)

Change: the end of work and community as "we" knew it

133

(2)

Tales of marking borders: how class matters versus ethnicity

135

(2)

Practice of exclusion: how a working-class neighbourhood became an imagined community

137

(1)

Conclusion

138

(1)

Notes

138

(2)

7 Middle-Class Identities in the United States

Fiona Devine

140

(23)

Class consciousness and class identities

142

(4)

Researching the American and British middle classes

146

(4)

Originating from the middle classes

150

(5)

Being other than middle class

155

(5)

Conclusion

160

(2)

Notes

162

(1)

8 Social Change and Social Identity: Postmodernity, Reflexive Modernisation and the Transformation of Social Identities in Australia

Tim Phillips and Mark Western

163

(23)

Theories of post- and reflexive modernity

164

(3)

Towards a theory of identity

167

(5)

Research methods and analytic strategy

172

(2)

Changing patterns of social identification

174

(8)

Discussion and conclusions

182

(3)

Notes

185

(1)

9 Class Analysis: Beyond the Cultural Turn

Rosemary Crompton and John Scott

186

(18)

Methodological contrasts in class analysis

187

(4)

Taking culture (too) seriously

191

(4)

The contributions to this book

195

(3)

The strange problem of the baby and the bathwater

198

(4)

Notes

202

(2)

Bibliography

204

(17)

Index

221

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