A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience

ISBN-13: 9780521659154 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 326 str.

Simon J Charlesworth

Opis

Charlesworth examines themes of poverty and class by focusing on a particular town--Rotherham--in South Yorkshire, England, and using the personal testimony of disadvantaged people who live there, acquired through recorded interviews and conversations. He applies to their life stories the interpretative tools of philosophy and social theory, drawing in particular on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Merleau-Ponty. Charlesworth argues the culture described in this book is not unique to Rotherham and the problems identified in this book will be familiar to economically powerless and politically dispossessed people everywhere.

Recenzje

'An exemplary study of contemporary working-class life … intense and affecting.' Sociology

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Dead Man's Town; 2. Introducing some concepts: practice, habitus, ethos, doxa, reflexivity; 3. Class and the objectifying subject: a reflexive sociology of class experience; 4. A landscape with figures?; 5. Understanding the barriers to articulation; 6. Necessity and being working class; 7. The culture of necessity and working class speech; Bibliography; Index.