Class, individualization, and late modernity : in search of the reflexive worker /
Will Atkinson.
- Houndsmill, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- viii, 245 p. ; 23 cm.
- Identity studies in the social sciences .
- Identity studies in the social sciences. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : from affluence to reflexivity -- Theoretical preliminaries -- Reflexivity and its discontents -- Conceptualizing class and reconceptualizing reflexivity -- Searching for the reflexive worker -- Educational reproduction today -- Topographical trajectories -- Distinction and denigration -- "Class" as discursive and political construct -- Conclusion: rigid relations through shifting substance.