Models of Contemporary Social Class: The Great British Class Survey
Models of Contemporary Social Class: The Great British Class Survey
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当代社会阶级模型：英国阶级调查
DOI：
10.4256/mio.2013.001
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发表时间：
2013
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G. Payne
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G. Payne
尽管在概念上有所不同，但英国阶级调查（“GBCS”）和NS-SeC（用来说明以前的阶级图式）的比较表明，它们在当代英国产生了基本相似的阶级图景。在有优势的人群中，GBCS有效地将一个非常富有的阶级和技术专业人员从既定的中产阶级中分离出来（尽管存在一些经济优势的分界点问题，以及“精英”的概念）。然而，在这两个方案中，中间类仍然是一个不太明确的领域。在弱势群体中，巨大的年龄差异引发了对经济史的反思，而作为消费行为差异的文化资本在多大程度上实际上受到时尚和物质环境的限制。尽管NS-SeC因其实用性而受到青睐，但对职业群体的测量仍然存在问题，这表明仍然需要改进阶级分析工具。
Although conceptually distinctive, a comparison of the Great British Class Survey (‘GBCS’) and NS-SeC (taken to be illustrative of previous class schema) shows they produce basically similar pictures of class in contemporary Britain. Among the advantaged, GBCS usefully separates off a very rich class, and technical professionals, from the established middle class (although with some problems of cut-off points of financial advantage, and the concept of ‘elite’). However, the intermediate classes remain an area of less clarity in both schemes. Among the less advantaged, substantial age differences prompt reflection about economic history, and the extent to which cultural capital captured as differences in consumption behaviour is actually bounded by fashion and material circumstances. Although NS-SeC is preferred for its practical utility, the measurement of occupational groups remains problematic, indicating the continued need to improve the tools of class analysis.