Class, Individualization and Late Modernity [electronic resource] : In Search of the Reflexive Worker /
Atkinson, W.author.
This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradition. Arguing against this view, this study vividly uncovers the multiple ways in which class stubbornly persists.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : from affluence to reflexivity -- Theoretical preliminaries -- Reflexivity and its discontents -- Conceptualizing class and reconceptualizing reflexivity -- Searching for the reflexive worker -- Educational reproduction today -- Topographical trajectories -- Distinction and denigration -- "Class" as discursive and political construct -- Conclusion: rigid relations through shifting substance.
This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradition. Arguing against this view, this study vividly uncovers the multiple ways in which class stubbornly persists.
Industrial sociology.
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Political sociology.
Social structure.
Social inequality.
Intellectual life—History.
Sociology of Work.
Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Political Sociology.
Social Structure, Social Inequality.
Intellectual Studies.