232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Class, Self, Culture puts class back on the map in a novel way by taking a new look at how class is made and given value through culture. It shows how different classes become attributed with value, enabling culture to be deployed as a resource and as a form of property, which has both use-value to the person and exchange-value in systems of symbolic and economic exchange. The book shows how... Read more
1. Making Class: Inscription, Exchange, Value and Perspective 2. The Historical Production of Concepts of Class 3. Mobility and Individualism: Producing the Contemporary Bourgeois Self 4. The Subject of Value 5. Political Rhetorics of Class Difference 6. Moral Attribution in Popular Representations of Class 7. The Methods that make Classed Selves 8. Resourcing the Entitled Middle-Class Self 9. Class Relationships: Proximate Strangers, Fixing Femininity, Enabling Cosmopolitan Conclusion: Changing Perspectives
Biography
Beverley Skeggs is Professor of Sociology at The University of Manchester.
'The book offers a selection of carefully written but comprehensive analyses and interpretations that demystify the notions of class, self and culture and contextualize their meanings in the contemporary moment.' - Autobiography Journal
