Class, Individualization and Late Modernity In Search of the Reflexive Worker [Hardcover]

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.Introduction: From Affluence to Reflexivity PART I: THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES Reflexivity and its Discontents Conceptualizing Class and Reconceptualizing Reflexivity PART II: SEARCHING FOR THE REFLEXIVE WORKER Educational Reproduction Today Topographical Trajectories Distinction and Denigration 'Class' as Discursive and Political Construct Conclusion: Rigid Relations through Shifting Substance Appendix: The Search ProcessWILL 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.