ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the theoretical concepts and methodological research strategies employed to investigate, respectively: the construction of economic, political and cultural inequalities through housing tenure; the subjective understanding of these inequalities and; how such an understanding relates causally to courses of social action. The chapter explores the housing tenure intersects with other such dimensions of the social structure, to affect the social action of those engaged in struggle. The dunleavy dismisses the individual's subjective understanding of housing tenure as ideology, Saunders does stress the importance of the subjective dimension. The problem is that Saunders adopt the subjective dimension as a central part of a verstehen methodology but reduces the subjective understanding of housing tenure to a concern with the cultural aspects of consumption. The chapter also discusses the Weberian concepts and ensuing research strategies devised to examine the subjective understanding of the material experience of private property rights.
