Class, Individualization and Late Modernity - In Search of the Reflexive Worker

Informationen zum Autor WILL ATKINSON is a Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published in a variety of journals on class, social change and social theory. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: From Affluence to Reflexivity PART I: THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES Reflexivity and its Discontents Conceptualizing Class and Reconceptualizing Reflexivity PART II: 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 Appendix: The Search Process

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Introduction: From Affluence to Reflexivity PART I: THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES Reflexivity and its Discontents Conceptualizing Class and Reconceptualizing Reflexivity PART II: 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 Appendix: The Search Process

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• Authors: W Atkinson, W. Atkinson
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349317707
• ISBN: 978-1-349-31770-7
• No. of pages: 253
• Series: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences; Identity Studies in the Social; Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; B, Sociology, Social Inequality, History of Ideas, Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology, Political Sociology, Ethnology, Social & ethical issues, Social & cultural anthropology, Politics & government, Intellectual History, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Structure, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Sociocultural Anthropology, Intellectual life—History, Intellectual Studies, Sociology of Work, Industrial sociology, education;individual;production;reproduction