Should I pitch my tent in the middle ground?: on 'middling tendency', Beck and inequality in youth sociology.

Title: Should I pitch my tent in the middle ground?: on 'middling tendency', Beck and inequality in youth sociology.
Creator: Threadgold, Steven
Relation: Journal of Youth Studies Vol. 14, Issue 4, p. 381-393
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2010.538042
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2011
Description: In 2009 Woodman has recently challenged youth sociologists concerned with inequality to evolve from what he describes as a middling orthodoxy that misrepresents the work of Ulrich Beck in an effort to emphasise the continuing relevance of class. In 2010 Roberts forcefully responds to Woodman, arguing that Beck’s own words and empirical evidence contradict his argument. Woodman responds to Roberts, reasserting his position and asks for the debate to move beyond mere ‘quote wars’. This paper engages with this debate, taking Woodman’s challenge seriously while maintaining that Beck’s jettison of class is problematic, and that the concept of class itself is still vital. The paper concludes with suggestions as to what youth sociologists concerned with socio-economic inequality might want to focus upon in the future.
Subject: youth; Beck; inequality; class; middling tendency; Bourdieu; reflexivity; methodological nationalism; zombie category; social class
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1052491
Identifier: uon:15433
Identifier: ISSN:1367-6261
Language: eng
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