Elites, Race and Nationhood - The Branded Gentry

This book provides an ethnographic investigation of the white, upper-middle classes in Britain. It follows the Jack Wills brand to demonstrate how the internal economies of the brand forge a distinctive, elite social network made up of former public-school and Russell Group university students.

List of contents

1. Branded Gentry
2. The Gentry Aesthetic
3. The Dialectic of Jack Wills
4. Patronage and its Conflicts
5. Convivial Privilege and Exclusion
6. Ambivalent Aspiration
7. Conclusion: Embedded Economies and Distributive Justice in Arcadia

About the author

Daniel R. Smith is Lecturer in Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He has published widely on social class, whiteness and popular culture.

Summary

This book provides an ethnographic investigation of the white, upper-middle classes in Britain. It follows the Jack Wills brand to demonstrate how the internal economies of the brand forge a distinctive, elite social network made up of former public-school and Russell Group university students.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel R Smith, Daniel R. Smith, Smith, D Smith, D. Smith, Daniel R. Smith
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.01.2016, delayed
• EAN: 9781349701940
• ISBN: 978-1-349-70194-0
• No. of pages: 173
• Illustrations: VI, 173 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; B, Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Social Inequality, Cultural Studies, Economic Sociology, Society & culture: general, Poverty, biotechnology, Social Sciences, Social & ethical issues, Development Aid, Ethnicity, Media and Communication, Sociology, general, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Structure, Sociology: work & labour, Ethnicity Studies, Development Studies, Culture—Study and teaching, Cultural and Media Studies, general