Rethinking class : culture, identities and lifestyles

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Title:

Rethinking class : culture, identities and lifestyles

Author:

Devine, Fiona, 1962-

ISBN:

9780333968949

9780333968956

Publication Information:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Physical Description:

xi, 229 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

1. The cultural turn, sociology and class analysis / Fiona Devine and Mike Savage -- 2. Social stratification and social inequality : models of intersectionality and identity / Floya Anthias -- 3. The re-branding of class : propertising culture / Beverley Skeggs -- 4. Class and culture in Germany / Michael Vester -- 5. Local habitus and working-class culture / Mike Savage, Gaynor Bagnall and Brian Longhurst -- 6. Memory magic : how a working-class neighborhood became an imagined community and class started to matter when it lost its base / Talja Blokland -- 7. Middle-class identities in the United States / Fiona Devine -- 8. Social change and social identity : postmodernity, reflexive modernisation and the transformation of social identities in Australia / Tim Phillips and Mark Western -- 9. Class analysis : beyond the cultural turn / Rosemary Crompton and John Scott.

Subject Term:

Social classes.

Social stratification.

Culture.

Social classes -- Case studies.

Social stratification -- Case studies.

Added Author:

Devine, Fiona, 1962-

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Summary

Edited by leading British sociologists of stratification, this book advances contemporary debates in class analysis. It draws on current theoretical debates in sociology and considers the implications of the cultural turn for the study of class. It brings together the very latest empirical work on contemporary topics such as culture, identities and lifestyles undertaken by researchers from Britain, Germany, the Netherlands and Australia. It will be required reading for those committed to pushing the boundaries of class and stratification in new and exciting directions around the world.