Mike Savage (dir.)
Social Class in the 21st Century
Penguin Books
A Pelican Introduction
2015
Présentation de l'éditeur
A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.
Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?
How has the meaning of class changed?
What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?
In
this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the
Great British Class Survey look beyond the labels to explore how and why
our society is changing and what this means for the people who find
themselves in the margins as well as in the centre.
Their new
conceptualization of class is based on the distribution of three kinds
of capital - economic (inequalities in income and wealth), social (the
different kinds of people we know) and cultural (the ways in which our
leisure and cultural preferences are exclusive) - and provides
incontrovertible evidence that class is as powerful and relevant today
as it's ever been.
Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics.
He has written this book in collaboration with the team of sociology
experts behind the Gret British Class Survey: Niall Cunningham, Fiona
Devine, Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison, Lisa Mckenzie, Andrew Miles,
Helene Snee and Paul Wakeling.