... and his argument that working-class families exhibit cultural attitudes and tastes for social necessity. Design/methodology/approach – Attitudinal data relating to social necessity are taken from a national social survey of the British population. The results provide a rich source of data...

... Class Gender Ethnicity Income Status attainment Previous studies have shown that the socioeconomic background, gender and “race”/ethnicity [1] of an individual, separately and in constellations, affect access to social capital (Lin, 2004). However, the fluidity of the concept of social...

... or function of economic distribution. It posits that income distribution is conditional on pre‐existing social stratification expressed in antecedent differences in class, power, status and related factors. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 who gets what stratification Economic distribution...

..., these girls value educational achievement. However, the girls’ relationships with teachers are strained. Teachers do not appreciate “tough” girls. Race, class, and gender together construct a student culture that produces girls who fight in school. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Education Violence Gender...

...Emma Casey This article represents an attempt to uncover a suitable method of sociological enquiry, which can best understand and explore the experiences of the older, working class women of my research. Noting the historical, frustrating sense of absence of women in dominant knowledge claims...