Common Sense and the Collaborative Production of Class  

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Pascale, Celine-Marie

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Cultural Sociology vol. 2 no. 3 (Nov. 2008), page 345-368.
Topik: deconstruction / discourse analysis / ethnomethodology / performativity / poststructuralism / social class / textual analysis
Fulltext: 345.pdf (243.17KB)

Isi artikel

In the USA, economic inequality, while arguably one of the most material sites of ‘difference’, is often one of the least visible. The presence and meaning of class in daily life may be more vague than at any other time in US history. This article examines how commonsense knowledge about class leads people to engage in practices that systematically disorganize the presence of social and economic capital. The over-arching analytical framework builds a performative analysis of class by situating the personal agency of talk within broader cultural discourses that shape and constrain possibilities for talk. I draw from ethnomethodology and poststructural discourse analysis to analyze talk about class in 1600 pages of transcript from interviews with 23 people. By linking the interpretive practices of talk in interviews to the circulation and repetition of cultural knowledge in discourses, I demonstrate how class identities are constituted through conditions not generally associated with economic processes.

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