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The conditional politics of class identity: class origins, identity and political attitudes in comparative perspective
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Abstract The sources, meaning and political implications of class identity are conditional on national context, reflecting the relative importance of cultural (status-related) versus economic (resource-related) influences on class identification. Unlike Danes, the majority of Britons continue to identify as ... mehr
The sources, meaning and political implications of class identity are conditional on national context, reflecting the relative importance of cultural (status-related) versus economic (resource-related) influences on class identification. Unlike Danes, the majority of Britons continue to identify as working class. This difference between the two societies is robust across the span of 50 years of survey data analysed. It is unrelated to national variations in inequality, reflecting instead the far larger influence of an ascriptive source of identity, class origins, in Britain compared with Denmark, where current class remains the primary influence. The two societies in turn differ in the extent to which class identity is associated with economic or cultural politics. In Denmark, working class identification is associated with endorsement of redistribution, in Britain it is associated with opposition to immigration. High levels of working class identification in Britain therefore provide an augmented constituency for the radical right rather than the left.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
soziale Klasse; Klassenbewusstsein; Rechtsradikalismus; Migration; Umverteilung; sozialer Status; politische Einstellung
Klassifikation
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
class identity; class origins; ISSP 1997-2001; ISSP 2009
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2022
Seitenangabe
S. 1178-1205
Zeitschriftentitel
West European Politics, 45 (2022) 6
Heftthema
Working-Class Politics
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2022.2039980
ISSN
1743-9655
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)