Class, Individualization and Late Modernity

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction: From Affluence to Reflexivit

   1. Introduction

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      Pages 1-14

3. Theoretical Preliminaries

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      Pages 15-15

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   2. Reflexivity and its Discontents

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      Pages 17-43

   3. Conceptualizing Class and Reconceptualizing Reflexivity

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      Pages 44-73

4. Searching for the Reflexive Worker

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      Pages 75-75

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   2. Educational Reproduction Today

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      Pages 77-105

   3. Topographical Trajectories

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      Pages 106-132

   4. Distinction and Denigration

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      Pages 133-159

   5. ‘Class’ as Discursive and Political Construct

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      Pages 160-186

   6. Conclusion

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5. Back Matter

   Pages 196-245

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This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradition. Arguing against this view, this study vividly uncovers the multiple ways in which class stubbornly persists.

• education
• individual
• production
• reproduction

• University of Bristol, UK

  Will Atkinson

WILL ATKINSON is a Researcher in the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol, UK. He has published in a variety of journals on class, social change and social theory.

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