Self Reflections in the Mass
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4494624 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J M Hinton (0009-0003-2756-0956, corresponding author), J Hinton |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 251-259 |
| Publication date | 2013-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbs058 |
| OpenAlex | W2070753834 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
Savage’s ambitious book offers a seductive association between, on the one hand, the rise of a new middle class which, in the name of a technological modernity, sharply distinguished itself from the ‘gentlemanly’ culture of the Britain’s established intellectual elites and, on the other hand, the postwar flourishing of the social sciences in Britain’s universities, ousting their previous subordination to the ‘gentlemanly’ pursuit of the arts and humanities. While neither phenomenon can be reduced to, or entirely explained by, the other, Savage argues that there are causative links running in both directions. Sociologists, Savage argues, should pay attention to the ‘footprint’ of their own activity which was itself implicated in the reconstruction of popular identities. This brief summary does not do justice to the range of Savage’s argument or to the flood of ideas which spill, sometimes confusingly, over the main lines of the exposition. The four reviewers in Sociology’s symposium on the book found different things to praise and to criticize but all were agreed that it was an exceptionally difficult text to summarize. As Sheila Rowbotham put it, ‘there is a compressed density in the writing which led me to conclude that there are several books rather than one squashed between the covers’.1 In what follows I will discuss only one of these books – not the history of sociological method, but the argument that between the 1930s and the 1990s: powerful new kinds of middle-class identities were generated, ones which broke from old notions of ‘status’ and ‘gentility’ and which emphasised instead the technocratic and scientific capacities of the middle class, and hence saw them as key parts of an efficient and modernising nation.2
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Intimacy
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Changing Social Class Identities in Post-War Britain
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |