Tag: politics
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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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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,…
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