ABSTRACT
This introduction provides some of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book begins with the basic task of building and validating a new model of the British class structure a la Bourdieu, that is to say, identifying the key fault lines of the misrecognition order, and explores its transformation in recent history. It presents the symbolic space in twenty-first-century Britain, using the CCSE team's own data, but departing from their manner of proceeding, to pull out the core dimensions of cultural difference. The book reviews the distinct continuities of class orientations despite the appearance of new media and forms of expression in the UK today. It moves on to political attitudes, constructing the space of maximal differences and similarities in ethics and outlooks. The book deals with the two-way relationship between the social space and physical space in shaping mundane experience.
