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Social Class in the 21st Century

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Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'. Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today? How has the meaning of class changed? What does this mean for social mobility and inequality? In this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey look beyond the  Read more...

Author(s): Mike Savage; Niall Cunningham; Fiona Devine; Sam Friedman; Daniel Laurison; Lisa Mckenzie; Andrew Miles; Helene Snee; Paul Wakeling
Series: A Pelican Introduction
Publisher: Pelican Books (Penguin Random House UK)
Year: 2015

Language: English
Tags: Social classes -- Great Britain;Social structure -- Great Britain;Income distribution -- Great Britain;Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 21st century;Income distribution;Social classes;Social conditions;Social structure;Great Britain;Soziale Klasse;Soziale Ungleichheit;Soziales Kapital;Kulturelles Kapital;Prekariat;Großbritannien;Sociala klasser;Sociala strukturer;Inkomstfördelning;Storbritannien

Contents
LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FIGURES
INTRODUCTION

The Great British Class Survey and the Return of Class Today
PART ONE: THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL CLASS
CHAPTER 1

Contesting Class Boundaries

DIFFERENTIATING MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASS
PART TWO: CAPITALS, ACCUMULATION AND SOCIAL CLASS
CHAPTER 2

Accumulating Economic Capital
CHAPTER 3

Highbrow and Emerging Cultural Capital
CHAPTER 4

Social Capital

NETWORKS AND PERSONAL TIES
CHAPTER 5

The New Landscape of Class

THE INTERPLAY OF ECONOMIC, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CAPITAL
PART THREE: SOCIAL MOBILITY, EDUCATION AND LOCATION
CHAPTER 6

Climbing Mountaıns

THE SOCIAL MOBILITY EXPEDITION
CHAPTER 7

A Tale of Two Campuses?

UNIVERSITIES AND MERITOCRACY
CHAPTER 8

Class and Spatial Inequality in the UK
PART FOUR: THE CLASS DIVIDE IN 21ST CENTURY BRITAIN
CHAPTER 9

The View at the Top

BRITAIN’S NEW ‘ORDINARY’ ELITE
CHAPTER 10

The Precarious Precariat

THE VISIBLE INVISIBLE PEOPLE
CHAPTER 11

Class Consciousness and the New Snobbery
CONCLUSION

The Old New Politics of Class in the 21st Century
APPENDIX

The Great British Class Survey
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
FOLLOW PENGUIN