Zygmunt Bauman: An Adorno for ‘Liquid Modern’ Times?

Rattansi, Ali

doi:10.1111/1467-954x.12214

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“…Bauman's approach, however, has been criticised for its wide-ranging theoretical assumptions and limited empirical substantiation. It neglects the possibility that traditional social structures may persist at a deeper level [106][107][108]. In addition, processes of 're-embedding' may occur, where new distinctions emerge reflecting differences in socio-economic position, ethnic background and power relations under liquid societal conditions [109: 656-659].…”

Section: Liquidity and The Decline Of Social Class: Individual Life S...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A contemporary class structure: Capital disparities in The Netherlands

Vrooman,

Boelhouwer,

Gijsberts

2024

PLoS ONE

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The academic and public debate on social inequality has recently been fuelled by large disparities in income and wealth, profound changes in the labour market, and other emerging cleavages in post-industrial societies. This article contributes to the discussion by arguing that class divisions are theoretically based on four types of capital: people’s economic means, their social capital, their cultural resources, and the combination of their health and attractiveness (‘person capital’). From this premise, the social structure of the Netherlands is examined. A dedicated survey was linked to microdata from the national population register, tax authorities and benefit agencies. Using latent class analysis, we assess contingencies in the distribution of the different resources, and identify a structure consisting of six capital groups. The established upper echelon (15.5% of the adult population) has the most capital, followed by the privileged younger people (12.7%), the employed middle echelon (26.9%) and the comfortable retirees (16.6%). Total capital is lowest among the insecure workers (13.5%) and the precariat (14.8%). Each social class has a distinctive mix of the four types of capital, highlighting the need to look beyond economic differences in order to comprehend structural inequality. The results of this study also indicate that resource disparities between classes coincide with other forms of social hierarchy and contrasts by age. Moreover, the contemporary class structure is associated with divergent views and experiences among the Dutch. Classes with little capital tend to rate politics, society, and their own social position more negatively. In addition, they value self-enhancement and hedonism less than today’s upper classes and report lower levels of well-being.

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Section: Liquidity and The Decline Of Social Class: Individual Life S...mentioning

confidence: 99%

A contemporary class structure: Capital disparities in The Netherlands

Vrooman,

Boelhouwer,

Gijsberts

2024

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“…Zygmunt Bauman was a significant writer who held a consistent line on culture throughout these times-criticising the ghettoed theorisations of consumption and culture and of the 'freedoms' and 'choice' that consumer society purportedly brought. Viewed by Ali Rattansi as the ' Adorno of our times' 72 Bauman wrote that capitalism provided freedom and choice, but only within the parameters of market-approved commodities-and this was to render the consumer essentially 'unfree' or trapped within the boundaries of the capitalist market itself. To have active agency in the marketplace, Bauman writes, is to have hardly any kind of agency at all, and certainly not political agency:…”

Section: Consumer Culture's Academic Ghettomentioning

confidence: 99%

The Culture of Digitality

2020

The Condition of Digitality: A Post-Modern Marxism for the Practice of Digital Life

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The age of consumption, being the historical culmination of the whole process of accelerated productivity under the sign of capital, is also the age of radical alienation Jean Baudrillard, The Consumer Society, p.207. In our time … algorithms are becoming decisive, and … companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook are fast becoming, despite their populist rhetoric, the new apostles of culture Ted Striphas ' Algorithmic Culture' 2015, p.

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“…Since we have evoked explicitly his favourite Jorge Luis Borges (2000Borges ( [1941) story for the title of our paper, we may say that in the pages of TCS these familiar and unfamiliar paths diverge and converge, approach each other, fork and break-off at distinct points. One of the most interesting of these 'forking paths', especially in the light of recent criticisms of Bauman's 'Eurocentrism' (Mayblin, 2017;Rattansi, 2014Rattansi, , 2016 and preoccupation only with the fate of 'generalized others' (Best, 2016), pertains to the concept of civilization. This is engaged directly in a short essay entitled 'On the origins of civilization' (Bauman, 1985) and, less directly in a later review essay, 'The philosopher in the age of noise: A reading of Richard J. Bernstein's Philosophical Profiles' (Bauman, 1987b).…”

Section: Defamiliarizing the Familiar Bauman: Civilization And Differmentioning

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Hidden Paths in Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociology: Editorial Introduction

Campbell

Davis

Palmer

2018

Theory, Culture & Society

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Zygmunt Bauman. What does the name mean to you? Chances are, if you're taking the time to read these thoughts on the first anniversary of his passing, the name means 'inspiration', 'imagination', perhaps even 'perspiration' if-like us-you've tried to keep up with him in either publication or conversation. If you are from the world of sociology, which he always declared to be his home, then chances are that the name Zygmunt Bauman may also mean 'over-generalization', perhaps even 'frustration'. Especially in the UK, methodological sensitivities meant that he spent his long academic life held firmly at the threshold for want of a more robust and evidence-based explanation of how he had arrived there. Zygmunt Bauman. A stranger at the door. From his home in Leeds, where he had lived since the early 1970s, Bauman diagnosed the most pressing concerns of our times, forever inviting us to question the ostensibly unquestionable aspects of our shared lives and to see the world anew. Across more than 60 books, he addressed such timeless aspects of the human condition as freedom and security, power and politics, ethics and morality, identity and community, anxiety and uncertainty, love and evil, hope and nostalgia. From 2000 onwards, Bauman became synonymous with a style of 'metaphorical thinking' in the manner of Hannah Arendt, through which the image of 'liquidity' was regularly deployed in order to analyse the increasing absence of solid structures and institutions that once provided the stable foundations for our shared world. This 'liquid modern' world of ours, he argued, was like all liquids: in constant flux, it is unable to stand still and

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Zygmunt Bauman: An Adorno for ‘Liquid Modern’ Times?

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A contemporary class structure: Capital disparities in The Netherlands

A contemporary class structure: Capital disparities in The Netherlands

The Culture of Digitality

Hidden Paths in Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociology: Editorial Introduction

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