Social and Cultural Inequalities in Britain: A Relational Analysis

英国的社会和文化不平等：关系分析

• 批准号: ES/J023302/1
• 负责人: Mike Savage
• 金额: $ 73.07万
• 依托单位: London School of Economics and Political Science
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ023302%2F1
• 关键词: Social; Cultural; Inequalities; Britain; Relational

Over the past 30 years there have been very different views as to whether social class still matters in contemporary UK. Influential sociologists such as Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens have emphasised the 'end of class'. Other sociologists such as John Goldthorpe have emphasised the entrenched nature of class inequalities. There are also uncertainties as to whether social class still affects cultural tastes and practices, and over how class conscious we are today.In the context of current worries about the possible entrenchment of social inequality linked to the recession, my Fellowship will pursue a distinctive approach which explores both the objective and subjective/ cultural dimensions of class and stratification. I will further unravel 'the paradox of class' (Savage 2000), where class inequalities appear more marked in their effects on health, educational attainment, and income, but appear relatively unimportant in terms of people's overt identities, cultural tastes and values. I will pursue my research which argues that these apparently different findings can be reconciled through a 'relational' approach to social stratification. Thus, although the content of people's activities and identities (e.g. whether people identify as middle or working class, or prefer heavy metal or classical music) may appear to be relatively independent of class, their form (e.g. the way that they appreciate music, or claim to belong to a social class) remains highly socially specific. My Fellowship will pursue these ideas into a major research statement through three specific projects, each to lead to a major book, and each to last a year. The first two of these will take advantage of two very important but relatively under-used data sets which I have helped to generate. 1. The BBC's Great British Class Survey (2011) on which I and Fiona Devine were consultants. This has generated a remarkable 161,000 valid responses and offers a very detailed source of data for examining inequalities in cultural, social and economic domains. I will build on the initial report written for the BBC documenting striking class divisions in cultural and social, as well as economic capital, to examine the coherence of social class groups and whether alternative occupational categories might give a better fit on the detailed BBC data.2. The qualitative study on the 1958 National Child Development Study. In 2008-09 I was involved in a project collecting 230 qualitative interviews with a sub sample of the NCDS. I will examine this data, and link it to the panel data in order to explore the kinds of identities which these respondents articulate, and how they are related to their life histories and social backgrounds.3. Finally, I will write a major research monograph which will elaborate a relational approach to social stratification avoiding the reductionist tendencies of traditional approaches to social stratification. This conceptualises the class structure not in terms of fixed attributes, but in terms of the complex relationships between social, cultural and economic factors. This approach to social stratification draws on important currents in social science theory, notably field analysis, social network theory, and assemblage theory, and I expect a monograph drawing these themes together will have major interest. In pursuing these projects I will also make distinctive methodological contributions. These will include using multiple correspondence analysis to elaborate mixed method research strategies where individual qualitative interview accounts can be linked to survey responses. I will also contribute to developing strategies for the archiving of digital data. Through holding user workshops and international seminars I will also ensure that this research has the maximum possible reach.

在过去30年里，对于社会阶层在当代英国是否仍然重要，存在着非常不同的观点。乌尔里希·贝克和安东尼·吉登斯等颇具影响力的社会学家都强调“阶级的终结”。约翰·戈德索普等其他社会学家强调了阶级不平等的根深蒂固的本质。社会阶层是否仍然影响文化品味和习俗，以及我们今天的阶级意识如何，也存在不确定性。在当前对与经济衰退有关的社会不平等可能根深蒂固的担忧的背景下，我的研究员将采取一种独特的方法，探索阶级和分层的客观和主观/文化层面。我将进一步解开“阶级悖论”(Savage 2000)，在书中，阶级不平等对健康、教育程度和收入的影响似乎更加明显，但在人们的公开身份、文化品味和价值观方面似乎相对不重要。我将继续我的研究，认为这些明显不同的发现可以通过社会分层的“关系”方法来协调。因此，尽管人们活动和身份的内容(例如，人们认为自己是中产阶级还是工人阶级，还是更喜欢重金属音乐或古典音乐)可能看起来相对独立于阶级，但他们的形式(例如，他们欣赏音乐的方式，或声称属于一个社会阶层)仍然具有高度的社会特殊性。我的奖学金将通过三个具体的项目将这些想法转化为一个重要的研究声明，每个项目都会导致一本主要的书，每个项目都持续一年。前两个将利用我帮助生成的两个非常重要但相对未得到充分利用的数据集。1.英国广播公司的伟大英国阶级调查(2011)，我和菲奥娜·迪瓦恩是该调查的顾问。这产生了惊人的161,000份有效答复，并为审查文化、社会和经济领域的不平等提供了非常详细的数据来源。我将在为BBC撰写的最初报告的基础上，记录文化、社会和经济资本方面的显著阶级差异，以检查社会阶级群体的一致性，以及替代职业类别是否可能更适合BBC的详细数据。1958年《全国儿童发展研究》的定性研究。在2008-09年间，我参与了一个项目，收集了230个非传染性疾病亚样本的定性访谈。我将研究这些数据，并将其与面板数据联系起来，以探索这些受访者所表达的身份类型，以及他们与他们的生活史和社会背景之间的关系。最后，我将写一本重要的研究专著，阐述一种关系的社会分层方法，避免传统社会分层方法的简约主义倾向。这不是根据固定的属性，而是根据社会、文化和经济因素之间的复杂关系来概念化阶级结构。这种社会分层的方法借鉴了社会科学理论中的重要潮流，特别是场域分析、社会网络理论和聚集理论，我预计一本将这些主题结合在一起的专著将会引起人们的极大兴趣。在执行这些项目时，我还将在方法上做出独特的贡献。这些将包括使用多重对应分析来详细说明混合方法研究战略，其中可以将个别定性访谈的描述与调查答复联系起来。我还将为制定数字数据存档战略作出贡献。通过举办用户讲习班和国际研讨会，我还将确保这项研究具有最大可能的影响。

项目成果

Speaking Sociologically with Big Data: Symphonic Social Science and the Future for Big Data Research

用大数据进行社会学对话：交响社会科学与大数据研究的未来

• DOI: 10.1177/0038038517698639
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Sociology
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Halford S

A Social Analysis of an Elite Constellation: The Case of Formula 1

精英群体的社会分析：以一级方程式赛车为例

• DOI: 10.1177/0263276417716519
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Theory, Culture & Society
• 作者: Nichols G

Animating the Urban Vortex: New Sociological Urgencies

激活城市漩涡：新的社会学紧迫性

• DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12304
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
• 影响因子: 3.3
• 作者: Hall S

The politics of nationalism and white racism in the UK.

英国的民族主义和白人种族主义政治。

• DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12311
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: The British journal of sociology
• 作者: Flemmen M

The secret garden? Elite metropolitan geographies in the contemporary UK.

• DOI: 10.1111/1467-954x.12285
• 发表时间: 2015-05
• 期刊: The Sociological review
• 作者: Cunningham N;Savage M
• 通讯作者: Savage M