Affluence and Social Change in the Making of Technocratic Middle-Class Identities: Britain, 1939–55
Affluence and Social Change in the Making of Technocratic Middle-Class Identities: Britain, 1939–55
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技术官僚中产阶级身份形成过程中的富裕与社会变革：英国，1939-55
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2008
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M. Savage
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M. Savage
本文使用1939至1949年间对大规模观察指令的回应来考察这一时期中产阶级身份的变化性质。我展示了大众观察者如何试图与工人阶级和中产阶级中古板、非知识分子成员保持距离。然后，我展示了在战后的几年里，大众观察家如何受到他们认为工人阶级地位提高的挑战，以发展一种新的技术官僚身份。这拒绝了中产阶级文化优越感的主张，这似乎是势利的，与战后的社会民主价值观不符，并试图为中产阶级定义一个新的角色，作为国家的有效管理者。我认为，这种新出现的身份认同对作为政府工具的社会科学产生了新的兴趣，这很重要。
This paper uses responses to Mass-Observation Directives between 1939 and 1949 to examine the changing nature of middle-class identities during this period. I show how Mass-Observers sought to distance themselves both from the working class, and from the staid, non-intellectual members of the middle class. I then show how in the post-war years, Mass-Observers were challenged by what they saw as the improved position of the working class to develop a new kind of technocratic identity. This rejected claims to the cultural superiority of the middle classes, which seemed snobbish and at odds with post-war social democratic values, and sought to define a new role for the middle classes as efficient managers of the nation. I suggest that this emerging identity was important in leading to new interests in the social sciences as a tool of government.