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Class was once a strong indicator of which political party you would support. But since 2001, something quite different has been happening.
We shouldn’t think differently about working-class MPs taking gifts but the reality is that we do.
Even those unfamiliar with the genre will no doubt enjoy the adaption of Jilly Cooper’s frothy novel. But how will the TV version approach the less savoury attitudes that were prevalent in the 1980s?
In the second part of our podcast series Know Your Place: what happened to class in British politics, we trace the history of class politics over the past century.
The Conservative MP is far from the only politician to play up her working-class credentials and the changing nature of class in the UK makes it possible.
Interviews with former MPs show the party machine can end up crushing their dreams of representing working-class voters.
The singer’s home reflects the rags-to-riches trajectory that epitomizes the American Dream. Yet Presley and his estate were seen as not quite refined enough to reflect true upward mobility.
What happens when people form romantic relationships across class? Eve Vincent and Rose Butler interviewed 38 people to find out. Their candid answers are revealing.
Cate Blanchett’s claim to be ‘middle class’ isn’t unique among the wealthy, or even the 1% she’s part of. Downplaying privilege among elites contributes to the problem of wealth inequality.
Stephanie Land’s sequel to her mega-successful debut memoir Maid works as hard as she does – but while its details of low-income single-parent life as a student are valuable, it suffers by comparison.
Peter Benchley’s classic 1974 ‘man versus beast’ blockbuster novel doubled as a scathing critique of 1970s America. Spielberg’s film made its characters likeable – and its tone into a ‘grand adventure’.
Christos Tsiolkas’s new novel is more interested in individuals and our influences on one another than on Australia’s social problems.
First used in the 1970s, the social theory known as intersectionality triggered widespread debate on racial identifications and the interplay among categories.
A new wave of research shows how working-class young men are changing their behaviour. But some remain hostile to the term “toxic masculinity” and see it as a vehicle for shaming men.
As fashion norms change, what people wear in public becomes ground zero for hashing out new ideas of race, class and gender.
While women in poverty are more likely to experience sexual harassment and domestic abuse than higher-income women, people assume it is less distressing for them.
To really understand social interactions, researchers need to look beyond figures like mobile phone location data.
Digital platforms have birthed a new school of writers and activists in Nigeria and Kenya.
A lecturer in English literature gets her students to examine children’s books through the lens of race, class and sexuality.
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