Class Inequality in Austerity Britain [electronic resource] : Power, Difference and Suffering /
Atkinson, W.editor.
Roberts, S.editor.
Savage, M.editor.
When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to critical interrogation by exposing the interests behind the policy programme pursued and their damaging effects on class inequalities. Situated within a recognition of the longer-term rise of neoliberal politics, reflections on the status of sociology as a source of critique and current debates over the relationship between the cultural and economic dimensions of social class, the contributors cover an impressively wide range of relevant topics, from education, family policy and community to crime and consumption, shedding new light on the experience of domination in the early 21st Century.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: A Critical Sociology of the Age of Austerity; 2 Economic Crisis and Classed Everyday Life: Hysteresis, Positional Suffering and Symbolic Violence; 3 'We never get a fair chance': Working-Class Experiences of Education in the Twenty-First Century; 4 Banking on the Future: Choices, Aspirations and Economic Hardship in Working-Class Student Experience; 5 'Aspirations' and Imagined Futures: The Im/possibilities for Britain's Young Working Class
6 Personalising Poverty: Parental Determinism and the Big Society Agenda7 The Urban Outcasts of the British City; 8 The Stigmatised and De-valued Working Class: The State of a Council Estate; 9 Broken Communities?; 10 Facing the Challenge of the Return of the Rich; 11 Conclusion: Three Challenges to the Exportation of Sociological Knowledge; Select Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 in claimed it would deliver not just austerity, as necessary as that apparently was, but also fairness. This volume subjects this pledge to critical interrogation by exposing the interests behind the policy programme pursued and their damaging effects on class inequalities. Situated within a recognition of the longer-term rise of neoliberal politics, reflections on the status of sociology as a source of critique and current debates over the relationship between the cultural and economic dimensions of social class, the contributors cover an impressively wide range of relevant topics, from education, family policy and community to crime and consumption, shedding new light on the experience of domination in the early 21st Century.
Great Britain—Politics and government.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Poverty.
Sociology.
Political science.
Economic sociology.
British Politics.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Development Aid.
Sociology, general.
Political Science.
Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.