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The Great British Class Fiasco: A Comment on Savage et al.

Author(s) -

Colin Mills

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

sociology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.847

H-Index - 109

eISSN - 1469-8684

pISSN - 0038-0385

DOI - 10.1177/0038038513519880

Subject(s) - typology , class (philosophy) , sociology , sample (material) , the internet , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , anthropology , world wide web , chemistry , chromatography

Savage et al. (2013) claim they have produced a new model of the British class structure. They stress the innovative use of an internet survey, the BBC’s Great British Class Survey (GBCS), but it plays no serious role in the generation of their class typology. What they do is a theory free (though Bourdieu inspired) data dredging exercise. What they derive is an arbitrary typology determined by a contingent fact – the size of their sample.

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