Class, Self, Culture

by Skeggs; Beverley

• ISBN13: 9780415300865
• ISBN10: 041530086X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-12-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Skeggs puts class back on the map in a novel way by taking a new look at how class is made and given value through culture. It shows how different classes become attributed with value, enabling culture to be deployed as a resource and as a form of property, which has both use-value to the person and exchange-value in systems of symbolic and economic exchange.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vi
1 Making class: inscription, exchange, value and perspective	1	(26)
2 Thinking class: the historical production of concepts of class	27	(18)
3 Mobility, individualism and identity: producing the contemporary bourgeois self	45	(17)
4 The subject of value and the use-less subject	62	(17)
5 The political rhetorics of class	79	(17)
6 Representing the working class	96	(23)
7 The methods that make classed selves	119	(16)
8 Resourcing the entitled middle-class self	135	(20)
9 Beyond appropriation: proximate strangers, fixing femininity, enabling cosmopolitans	155	(18)
10 Conclusion: changing perspectives	173	(15)
Notes	188	(8)
Bibliography	196	(20)
Index	216