ABSTRACT
These battles are an example of everyday hegemony in practice (as discussed in Chapter 2). Of course, this also suggests that social classes are themselves constantly formed and hence the term class fractions to distinguish from the ‘once-and-for-all’ idea of the working class, or the middle class. Social class formation is, therefore, a dynamic process, ‘a flame whose edges are in constant movement, oscillating around a line or surface’ (Bourdieu, 1987: 13), and of conceptual importance in helping to understand
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Age 58, retired World Bank agricultural economist Meet a member of the new ‘whoopie’ club – wealthy, healthy, older people. Like many ecotourists, they are from the rich industrialised countries, aged between 44 and 64 years of age, and this growing elitist club has ‘been there and done that’.
