ABSTRACT
Although we have looked In some detail through case study at the experience and cultural processes of being male,white,working class,unqualified,disaffected and moving into manual work in contemporary capitalism,the rearestillsomemysteries to be explained.In one senseitmight seem that one set of random causalities individual pathology and cultural deprivation-has simply been replaced by another - cultural creativity and continuity.We have seen how some working lass lads differentiate themselves from the institution, but why is this so? We have seen the conviction with which they hold their views,insights and feelings of cultural election,but what is the basi$ for this subjectiv eelevation? We have seen their attitude to the occupational structure,but how can we explain its reversal of the conventional evaluation? We have seen how their genuinely held insight sand convictions lead finally to an objective work situation which seems to be entrapment rather than liberation.But how does this happen? What are the basic deter· minants of those cultural forms whose tensions,reversals,continuities and final outcomes we have already explored?
