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| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Notes on contributors | ||
| Introduction: Marking out of the middle class(es) | 1 | |
| 1 | Class analysis and social research | 15 |
| 2 | The debate over the middle classes | 26 |
| 3 | Gender and service-class formation | 41 |
| 4 | Women's employment and the "middle class" | 58 |
| 5 | Black middle-class formation in contemporary Britain | 76 |
| 6 | Managerial and professional work-histories | 95 |
| 7 | The bureaucratic career: demise or adaptation? | 117 |
| 8 | The remaking of the state middle class | 133 |
| 9 | "Too much work?" Class, gender and the reconstitution of middle-class domestic labour | 148 |
| 10 | Migration and middle-class formation in England and Wales, 1981-91 | 169 |
| 11 | Gentrification and the urban middle classes | 188 |
| 12 | A middle-class countryside? | 205 |
| 13 | The new middle classes and the social constructs of rural living | 220 |
| 14 | Taste among the middle classes, 1968-88 | 241 |
| 15 | Home-ownership and the middle classes | 257 |
| 16 | Political alignments within the middle classes, 1972-89 | 275 |
| 17 | Middle-class radicalism revisited | 293 |
| 18 | The service class revisited | 313 |
| 19 | Reflections on gender and geography | 330 |
| 20 | Assets and the middle classes in contemporary Britain | 345 |
| Bibliography | 359 | |
| Index | 381 |
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Robert Ginter
reviewed Social change and the middle classes on April 14, 2015 Social change and the middle classes
I was really excited to read this book and I started off with the first section which presented surreal numbers. I even broke out the pen and paper to follow along. Unfortunately, I was lost amid the imprecise descriptions and possible errors.
Fortunately, the author had written earlier that the second part was readable without the first, and since my interest was in the applicability of surreal numbers to games, I tried that.
Unfortunately, that too did not work. The author seemed to make mistakes in his dominoes example and at no point did I feel any relevance for surreal numbers to games.
I skimmed a bit more before finally giving up.
It's a shame. I really wanted to like this book, and the subject matter might be as good as others say, but the presentation was just poor. Perhaps a solid proofing and beefing up the anemic sections might make this worthwhile.
For now, it's a poor introduction to a tantalizing subject.
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