Overview: Looks at how images of class difference are circulated across various different media, and analyses their influence on the way we understand social distinction, social value and social progress.Taps iHow does culture articulate, frame, organise and produce stories about social class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? How have class-based labels been revived or newly-minted to categorise the insiders and outsiders of the new ‘age of austerity‘? Drawing on examples from the 1980s to the present day
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