ALL CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES HAVE CLASS STRUCTURES, though not every society treats class as an issue of premium social importance. In the United States, racial divides are often foremost in people’s minds and people tend to see themselves as being much less class bound. Any visitor to the UK, by contrast, will soon hear people talk about class. Indeed, they may soon see it : with elite educational institutions from public schools to Oxford and Cambridge universities, gentlemen’s clubs, and the famous houses of the landed aristocracy. At the other extreme, the homeless sleeping in streets and slum housing can mark out ‘the lower classes’. As Valerie Walkerdine and her colleagues (2001) suggest : Class is not something that is simply produced economically. It is performed, marked, written on minds and bodies. We can’ spot it a mile off’ even in the midst of our wish for it no longer to be there.
To get a good idea of what class is all about, consider two extremes in the UK. First consider the election of the new UK government (the Conservative Democratic Alliance) in 2010. Under the co-leaders David Cameron and Nick Clegg, the cabinet of 29 was established as usual to provide the key group of people to run the country. In that cabinet, some 23 of them had wealth well over a million pounds and some 20 of them had been to the same university group Oxford and Cambridge. They are in a sense a distinctly privileged group-with more wealth than most people in the country, but also have a different social and cultural capital, being from the UK’s most prestigious (and elite) universities. What class would you put them in?
ALL CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES HAVE CLASS STRUCTURES, though not every society treats class as an issue of premium social importance. In the United States, racial divides are often foremost in people’s minds and people tend to see themselves as being much less class bound. Any visitor to the UK, by contrast, will soon hear people talk about class. Indeed, they may soon see it : with elite educational institutions from public schools to Oxford and Cambridge universities, gentlemen’s clubs, and the famous houses of the landed aristocracy. At the other extreme, the homeless sleeping in streets and slum housing can mark out ‘the lower classes’. As Valerie Walkerdine and her colleagues (2001) suggest : Class is not something that is simply produced economically. It is performed, marked, written on minds and bodies. We can’ spot it a mile off’ even in the midst of our wish for it no longer to be there.
To get a good idea of what class is all about, consider two extremes in the UK. First consider the election of the new UK government (the Conservative Democratic Alliance) in 2010. Under the co-leaders David Cameron and Nick Clegg, the cabinet of 29 was established as usual to provide the key group of people to run the country. In that cabinet, some 23 of them had wealth well over a million pounds and some 20 of them had been to the same university group Oxford and Cambridge. They are in a sense a distinctly privileged group-with more wealth than most people in the country, but also have a different social and cultural capital, being from the UK’s most prestigious (and elite) universities. What class would you put them in?
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