Leisure, Lifestyle and the New Middle Class: A Case Study

ISBN-13: 9780415038348 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 184 str.

Derek Wynne

Opis

The author of this volume examines how a group of people goes about constructing and defending its social identity. Through the study of residents living on a recently constructed housing estate, The Heath, which contains its own private leisure and sports facilities, he considers the extent to which social identity within the new middle class can be considered to relate more to experience associated with leisure and cultural consumption than to experiences related to productive activity.

Spis treści

Preface 1 INTRODUCTION 2 LOCATING THE NEW MIDDLE CLASS 3 THE HEATH: SETTING AND STRUCTURE 4 THE SOCIAL SPACE OF MOBILITY 5 THE SOCIAL SPACE OF LIFESTYLES 6 THE SOCIAL SPACE OF GENDER 7 THE CLUBHOUSE 8 CONCLUSION

O autorze

Derek Wynne is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Manchester Metropolitan University.