Tag: class
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Green against greed: What my new paper says about class, cultural capital and environmental attitudes
Why are pro-environmental attitudes more common among the privileged? In a new article in The British Journal of Sociology, [free access version] I challenge three common explanations and propose a fourth: that strong ecological views among those rich in cultural capital reflect a form of symbolic asceticism—a moralized distancing from wealth and materialism. Rather than…
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“Populism” and the idea of morally superior elites
Is populism a good concept? Or is it a new way of denigrating “the people” and glorifying the elites? It might be more of the latter than you think, according to a fascinating paper by French political sociologist Annie Collovald. The concept of populism has basically done a 180, as it moved from a label…
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Cultural capital approaching 60
Cultural capital will soon turn 60 (I’m folllowing Johan Heilbron, who in the Dictionnaire International Bourdieu dates the concept to the publication of Les héritiers in 1964). A lot has happened to that concept throught its long life. In a new paper, Mike Savage, Annick Prieur and I discuss some recent studies and reflect on…
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Ordinary relationships to politics: Interview with Daniel Gaxie
A few years ago, I presented what later became this paper at a conference in Florence. I met some colleagues there that were utterly surprised that I was compeltely unaware of the work of Daniel Gaxie. Luckily, a few months after that, CAIRN published the digitial version of Le cens caché, Gaxie’s first major work,…
Magne P. Flemmen 