Lives Beyond Suspicion
Gender and the Construction of Respectability in Mid-twentieth Century Rural North Wales
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4768604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Brown (0000-0003-0670-0924, De Montfort University, corresponding author), Sally Baker (0000-0001-9143-5816, Bangor University, corresponding author), Graham Day (Bangor University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 370-386 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9523.2011.00544.x |
| OpenAlex | W2160505620 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 36 |
This article explores and extends the field of historical rural sociology using the idea of respectability via a biographical study of 20 older adults from North Wales (UK) for whom the performance of respectability represented a form of social, symbolic or cultural capital. It entailed the active negotiation and management of barriers between differing constituencies of opinion, generations and family members. Key to this situated respectability in practice was the notion that harsher systems of exclusion for transgressors were located elsewhere, rather than in the present or immediate community. The sense of the past evoked by participants highlights an historical, diachronic dimension to respectability. A particularised, carefully constructed image of the past was present in participants' evocations of respectability, providing a way of talking about identity and historical progression, as well as a means of managing potentially contentious events to preserve the dignity of the people concerned
Aesthetics · Art · Capital (architecture) · Cultural capital · Dignity · Diversity (politics) · Identity (music) · Negotiation · Political science · Sense of place · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Data Analysis and Archiving · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Rural development and sustainability
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Discipline and Punish
Handbook of theory and research for the sociology of education
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Distinction
The Forms of Capital
The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science
The Wretched of the Earth
Schools for the moral training of the people’
We were conscious of the sort of people we mixed with
Harbingers of feminism? Gender, cultural capital and education in mid‐twentieth‐century rural Wales
The importance of being a ‘lady’
The diluted working classes of rural England and Wales
Dignity and indignation
Death, Narrative Integrity, and the Radical Challenge of Self-Understanding
Beyond Identity? The Reconstruction of the Welsh
The stupid party
Discipline and Punish
Welsh Rural Communities
Habitus and Homeland
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Religion and Social Status in Rural Wales
Context and Background
Performance at the Nexus of Gender, Power, and Desire
The streets of Bethesda
A North Wales Village
Welshness Performed
Social Space and Symbolic Power
Respondent-Driven Sampling
Exploring Participant-centred Reflexivity in the Research Interview
English Money and Welsh Rocks
The social space and the genesis of groups
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |