Class and Cultural Division in the UK

Roux, Brigitte Le; Rouanet, Henry; Savage, Mike; Warde, Alan

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“…Moreover, the television program preferences of professionals are different from the working class in that they prefer current affairs programs to soap operas. Hence, the study shows how class divisions are still significant and relevant in the UK and how they play an important role in determining cultural divisions (Le Roux et al, 2008: 1064-1066 2 .…”

Section: Cultural Practices and Taste And Class Analysismentioning

confidence: 92%

“…While Chan and Goldthrope (2007:3) emphasize that they focus specifically on evidence of cultural consumption rather than taste, Le Roux et.al (2008:1054 concentrate on both the participation of cultural activities and taste so that expressions, and likes and dislikes are considered. Le Roux et al (2008Roux et al ( :1054 is right to argue that both signifying objects and signifying practice needs to be considered. Indeed, considering Holt (1997), Tampubolon (2008: 406-407) argues that even if people consume the same objects the modes of appreciation of those objects may vary according to the social structure.…”

Section: Skeggs and Savage On Cultural Class Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

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Class Identities and Cultural Practices: New Debates on Recent Theories

Karadağ

2016

Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences

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It has been claimed that class analysis cannot explain contemporary social hierarchy and new forms of cultural alignments. The recent works of class theorists, on the other hand, rejects the arguments of the "death of class," instead propose a modification of class theory with an emphasis on culture and identity. Drawing on Beverly Skeggs and Mike Savage's studies among this group, the paper argues that including cultural formations into class theory these studies bring along a new perspective to the subject. In a recent study with Bennett et al. Culture, Class, Distinction (2008) Savage focuses on cultural dimension of class in contemporary Britain. However, the article questions the way the study explains people's experiences of class in their everyday life. Indeed, the paper argues that Savage and Bennett et.al's work gives a vague explanation of class identities and cannot explain questions about the everyday practices of class and identity. This is not to deny that the pattern of class and culture has been changed, rather the paper urges us to consider how relations of class are made and re-made within everyday life and how this effects class identity.

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Section: Cultural Practices and Taste And Class Analysismentioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Skeggs and Savage On Cultural Class Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Class Identities and Cultural Practices: New Debates on Recent Theories

Karadağ

2016

Gaziantep University Journal of Social Sciences

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“…The presentday middle classes are cultural and leisure omnivores, a feature first noted in the USA by Peterson in 1992. Since then omnivorous middle classes have been identified in numerous other places including Britain (Bennett et al, 2009;Roux et al, 2008). It is not via their highbrow tastes so much as the breadth of the interests that they can discuss and activate that the present-day middle classes make themselves distinctive, and make others feel that they are outsiders (Bourdieu, 1984;Peterson and Kern, 1996).…”

Section: Leisure Capital Formationmentioning

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The Leisure of Young People in Contemporary Society

Roberts¹

2012

Arbor

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“…Research following Bourdieu has mainly focused on the concept of cultural capital (see Lareau and Weininger 2003;Prieur and Savage 2013) and the space of cultural practices or lifestyles (Bennett et al 2009;Le Roux et al 2008). With regard to Bourdieu's theory of capitals, cultural capital has been much more extensively discussed and employed than economic capital.…”

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The Space of Capital: A Latent Class Analysis of Capital Portfolios in Germany

Waitkus¹,

Groh-Samberg

2017

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. University of Bremen Abstract:The aim of this paper is to construct the "space of capital" based on disaggregated measures of capital portfolios and to analyze the dynamics of class mobility over time. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's concept of the "social space", we argue that it is possible to directly assess the structural dimensions of the social space as a space of (economic and cultural) capital, including wealth as an important but often neglected form of economic capital. Using household panel data from 2002-2012 (SOEP), we apply latent class analysis in order to detect distinct classes based on specific capital portfolios. We find nine classes with diverging capital portfolios. When interpreting the nine latent classes, we find clear evidence for the two main axis of the social space, namely the vertical axis of the overall volume of capital, and the horizontal axis representing the composition of capital in terms of the relative weight of economic and cultural capital. Further exploration of class mobility reveals that the horizontal ...

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Class and Cultural Division in the UK

Cited by 165 publications

References 18 publications

Class Identities and Cultural Practices: New Debates on Recent Theories

Class Identities and Cultural Practices: New Debates on Recent Theories

The Leisure of Young People in Contemporary Society

The Space of Capital: A Latent Class Analysis of Capital Portfolios in Germany

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