Class Inequality in Austerity Britain: Power, Difference and Suffering

✍ Scribed by Will Atkinson, Steven Roberts, Mike Savage (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 204
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: A Critical Sociology of the Age of Austerity....Pages 1-12
Economic Crisis and Classed Everyday Life: Hysteresis, Positional Suffering and Symbolic Violence....Pages 13-32
‘We never get a fair chance’: Working-Class Experiences of Education in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 33-50
Banking on the Future: Choices, Aspirations and Economic Hardship in Working-Class Student Experience....Pages 51-69
‘Aspirations’ and Imagined Futures: The Im/possibilities for Britain’s Young Working Class....Pages 70-89
Personalising Poverty: Parental Determinism and the Big Society Agenda....Pages 90-110
The Urban Outcasts of the British City....Pages 111-127
The Stigmatised and De-valued Working Class: The State of a Council Estate....Pages 128-144
Broken Communities?....Pages 145-162
Facing the Challenge of the Return of the Rich....Pages 163-179
Conclusion: Three Challenges to the Exportation of Sociological Knowledge....Pages 180-187
Back Matter....Pages 188-195

✦ Subjects

British Politics; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Poverty, Aid and Development; Sociology, general; Political Science; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology