Mike Savage

Professor of Sociology Mike Savage

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? Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics where he is also co-Director of the International Inequalities Institute. He is recognised as a leading international authority on social class, with his recent books including Identities and Social Change in Britain Since 1940, He has written this book in collaboration with the team of sociological experts linked to the Great British Class Survey: Niall Cunningham, Fiona Devine, Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison, Lisa McKenzie, Andrew Miles, Helene Snee and Paul Wakeling.

Social Class in the 21st Century

David Wright

Tony Bennett

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Elizabeth Bortolaia Silva

Choice Recommended Title, February 2010 Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the authors review Bourdieu’s classic study of the relationships between culture and class in the light of subsequent debates. In doing so they re-appraise the relationships between class, gender and ethnicity, music, film, television, literary, and arts consumption, the organisation of sporting and culinary practices, and practices of bodily and self maintenance. As the most comprehensive account to date of the varied interpretations of cultural capital that have been developed in the wake of Bourdieu’s work, Culture, Class, Distinction offers the first systematic assessment of the relationships between cultural practice and the social divisions of class, gender and ethnicity in contemporary Britain. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationships between culture and society.

Professor of Sociology Mike Savage

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