Elites, Race and Nationhood: The Branded Gentry

by D. Smith, Daniel R. Smith

Overview

This book provides an ethnographic investigation of the white, upper-middle classes in Britain. It follows the Jack Wills brand to demonstrate how the internal economies of the brand forge a distinctive, elite social network made up of former public-school and Russell Group university students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137509604
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/13/2016
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	173
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniel R. Smith is Lecturer in Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. He has published widely on social class, whiteness and popular culture.

Table of Contents

1. Branded Gentry 2. The Gentry Aesthetic 3. The Dialectic of Jack Wills 4. Patronage and its Conflicts 5. Convivial Privilege and Exclusion 6. Ambivalent Aspiration 7. Conclusion: Embedded Economies and Distributive Justice in Arcadia