Hostile to Hierarchy? Individuality, Equality and Moral Boundaries in Dutch Class Talk.
Cultural class analysts point to the hidden and morally loaded nature of class in explaining people’s ambivalence towards class and their position in the class hierarchy. This article examines the way in which Dutch respondents draw on cultural repertoires about equality and individuality to deny or...
| Publicado en: | Sociology Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 526 - 542 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jun2013
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