Class and Everyday Life: Critiques and Practices

Class and Everyday Life explores the issues of class through in-depth studies of housing, sport, art, music, and politics in Britain, demonstrating the pervasive influence of class on everyday life and the need to center a radical understanding of class within emancipatory political movements. It advocates for a sociology of class informed by a politics of class, focusing on everyday life and the point at which class is made and remade.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 216 pages
Publication date: 01 January 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

In-depth examinations of housing, sports, art, music, and politics in Britain provide a compelling case for the pervasive influence of class on everyday life in Class and Everyday Life. The author emphasizes the urgent need to center a radical understanding of class within emancipatory political movements. The current disconnect between descriptive and analytical approaches to class and the politics of class, as well as the realities of how class is experienced, highlights the need for a more expansive understanding of class. The book challenges top-down frameworks of analysis and measurements that have stripped the study of class of its political radicalism. Instead, it advocates for a sociology of class informed by a politics of class, using the everyday as the point of enquiry. The book presents a sociology of class from the bottom-up, focusing on everyday life and the point at which class is made and remade. It advocates for an attentiveness to class and everyday life through a conjunctural analysis, examining how shifting conjunctures manifest in everyday spaces in classed ways and how such changes are negotiated, resisted, and shape the working-class subject and communities. The perspective aims to offer a recognition of both the opportunities and challenges of class as a way of developing a stronger, more politicized understanding of class that takes solidarity and class community power seriously to resist inequality and develop emancipatory politics.

This book will be an essential resource for students, academics, and activists seeking to understand the complexities of class and its impact on society. It provides a rich and nuanced analysis that challenges traditional narratives and offers new insights into the ways in which class shapes our lives and the world around us.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138927384