Class and Everyday Life av Kirsteen Paton

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<P>Exploring issues of class in through in-depth studies of housing, sport, art, music, and politics in Britain, <I>Class and Everyday Life </I>persuasively<I></I>demonstrates the pervasive influence of class on everyday life and the need to centre a radical understanding of class within emancipatory political movements.</P><P>The need for a more expansive understanding of class is politically urgent. There is a disconnect between descriptive and analytical approaches to class and the politics of class and realities around how class is lived. Discourse has been shaped by top-down frameworks of analysis and measurements which have stripped the study of class of its political radicalism. This book makes the case for a sociology of class which is informed by a politics of class, based upon using the everyday as the point of enquiry. It presents a sociology of class from the bottom-up which focuses on everyday life and the point at which class is made and remade. In doing so, it advocates