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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.
Keywords
- conflict
- conflicts
- dialectic
- Nation
- network
- race
- social network
- university
- development aid
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Elites, Race and Nationhood
Book Subtitle: The Branded Gentry
Authors: D. Smith
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-50960-4Published: 14 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-70194-0Due: 04 June 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 173
Topics: Sociology, general, Development Aid, Ethnicity Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology, Social Structure, Social Inequality