THE MIDDLE CLASSES AND THEIR ARISTOCRATIC OTHERS
THE MIDDLE CLASSES AND THEIR ARISTOCRATIC OTHERS
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中产阶级及其贵族阶层
DOI：
10.1080/17530350802476954
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发表时间：
2008
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
S. Lawler
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作者：
S. Lawler
本文从身份、性格和举止三个方面考察了英国中产阶级的身份、性格和举止，并将其置于中产阶级与贵族自我区分的背景下。以媒体对威廉王子和凯特·米德尔顿分手的大报报道为例，它考察了这种报道如何在两种意义上使用“阶级”的概念：一种是人为的系统，另一种是人的(自然化)财产。阶级的这两种含义相互渗透，因此，阶级蔑视可以用来对付那些被认为缺乏适当的“自然”品质的人。本文运用布迪厄的习惯观及其相关的生成性遗忘概念，论证了中产阶级倾向的自然化是当代英国阶级配置的重要手段。当(就像在这个案例研究中一样)这种归化被认为面临一些挑战时，整个品味和礼仪的象征性经济被认为受到了破坏，围绕中产阶级存在的焦虑被揭示出来。
This article considers English middle-classness in terms of identity, dispositions and manners, in the context of a project of middle-class self-distinction from the aristocracy. Taking as a case study broadsheet press coverage of the break-up of the relationship between Prince William and Kate Middleton, it examines the ways in which such coverage uses the concept of ‘class’ in two senses: as an artificial system, and as a (naturalized) property of the person. These two meanings of class slide into each other, so that class contempt can be used against persons who are seen to lack the appropriate, ‘natural’ qualities. Using Bourdieu's concept of habitus and its related notion of ‘generative forgetting’, I argue that the naturalization of middle-classed dispositions is an important means through which class is deployed in contemporary England. When (as in this case study) some challenge is seen to be mounted to this naturalization, a whole symbolic economy of taste and manners is seen as being undermined and the anxieties around middle-class existence are revealed.