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      Class, Self, Culture

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      Class, Self, Culture

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      Class, Self, Culture book

      ByBeverley Skeggs
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2004
      eBook Published 19 September 2013
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315016177
      Pages 232
      eBook ISBN 9781315016177
      Subjects Social Sciences
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      Skeggs, B. (2004). Class, Self, Culture (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315016177

      ABSTRACT

      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 class has not disappeared, but is known and spoken in a myriad of different ways, always working through other categorisations of nation, race, gender and sexuality and across different sites: through popular culture, political rhetoric and academic theory. In particular attention is given to how new forms of personhood are being generated through mechanisms of giving value to culture, and how what we come to know and assume to be a 'self' is always a classed formation.

      Analysing four processes: of inscription, institutionalisation, perspective-taking and exchange relationships, it challenges recent debates on reflexivity, risk, rational-action theory, individualisation and mobility, by showing how these are all reliant on fixing some people in place so that others can move.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|26 pages

      Making class Inscription, exchange, value and perspective

      chapter 2|18 pages

      Thinking class The historical production of concepts of class

      chapter 3|17 pages

      Mobility, individualism and identity producing the contemporary bourgeois self

      chapter 4|17 pages

      The subject of value and the use-less subject

      chapter 5|17 pages

      The political rhetorics of class

      chapter 6|23 pages

      Representing the working class

      chapter 7|16 pages

      The methods that make classed selves

      chapter 8|20 pages

      Resourcing the entitled middle-class self

      chapter 9|18 pages

      Beyond appropriation Proximate strangers, fixing femininity , enabling cosmopolitans

      chapter 10|15 pages

      Conclusion Changing perspectives

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