Class inequality in austerity Britain : power, difference and suffering / edited by Will Atkinson, Steven Roberts and Mike Savage.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Atkinson, Will, 1983-

Roberts, Steven, 1978-

Savage, Michael, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Income distribution.

Social classes--Great Britain--History--21st century.

Social classes.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

viii, 195 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

When the Coalition Government came to power in 2010 it 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 its damaging exacerbation of 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 class domination in the early 21st Century. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: A Critical Sociology of the Age of Austerity / Will Atkinson Atkinson, Will, Steven Roberts Roberts, Steven, Mike Savage Savage, Mike 1

2 Economic Crisis and Classed Everyday Life: Hysteresis, Positional Suffering and Symbolic Violence / Will Atkinson Atkinson, Will 13

3 'We never get a fair chance': Working-Class Experiences of Education in the Twenty-First Century / Diane Reay Reay, Diane 33

4 Banking on the Future: Choices, Aspirations and Economic Hardship in Working-Class Student Experience / Harriet Bradley Bradley, Harriet, Nicola Ingram Ingram, Nicola 51

5 'Aspirations' and Imagined Futures: The Im/possibilities for Britain's Young Working Class / Steven Roberts Roberts, Steven, Sarah Evans Evans, Sarah 70

6 Personalising Poverty: Parental Determinism and the Big Society Agenda / Val Gillies Gillies, Val 90

7 The Urban Outcasts of the British City / Matt Clement Clement, Matt 111

8 The Stigmatised and De-valued Working Class: The State of a Council Estate / Lisa McKenzie McKenzie, Lisa 128

9 Broken Communities? / Mike Savage Savage, Mike 145

10 Facing the Challenge of the Return of the Rich / Andrew Sayer Sayer, Andrew 163

11 Conclusion: Three Challenges to the Exportation of Sociological Knowledge / Will Atkinson Atkinson, Will, Steven Roberts Roberts, Steven, Mike Savage Savage, Mike 180.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137016379

113701637X

OCLC:

795175294

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