Unemployed Steelworkers, Social Class, and the Construction of Morality

Unemployed Steelworkers, Social Class, and the Construction of Morality

This thesis explores the dynamics of economic relations and distributive outcomes according to displaced steelworkers' own accountings of deindustrialization and job loss. Whereas class analyses tend to investigate consciousness according to “true” versus “false” preferences and “post-class” sc...

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Main Author: Carruth, Paul Andrew
Format: Others
Published: BYU ScholarsArchive 2009
Subjects:
social class
class consciousness
culture
unemployment
Sociology
Online Access:https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2142
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spelling ndltd-BGMYU2-oai-scholarsarchive.byu.edu-etd-31412019-05-16T03:20:33Z Unemployed Steelworkers, Social Class, and the Construction of Morality Carruth, Paul Andrew This thesis explores the dynamics of economic relations and distributive outcomes according to displaced steelworkers' own accountings of deindustrialization and job loss. Whereas class analyses tend to investigate consciousness according to “true” versus “false” preferences and “post-class” scholars assert that “post-materialism” is replacing “materialist” social concerns, the author abandons these dualisms to demonstrate that workers use cultural codes of “purity” and “pollution” to represent and evaluate individuals, interests, and relations. The findings buttress the continuing relevance of social class for explaining social identity, consciousness, and antagonism. 2009-08-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2142 https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3141&context=etd http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/ All Theses and Dissertations BYU ScholarsArchive social class class consciousness culture unemployment Sociology
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topic social class
class consciousness
culture
unemployment
Sociology
spellingShingle social class
class consciousness
culture
unemployment
Sociology
Carruth, Paul Andrew
Unemployed Steelworkers, Social Class, and the Construction of Morality
description This thesis explores the dynamics of economic relations and distributive outcomes according to displaced steelworkers' own accountings of deindustrialization and job loss. Whereas class analyses tend to investigate consciousness according to “true” versus “false” preferences and “post-class” scholars assert that “post-materialism” is replacing “materialist” social concerns, the author abandons these dualisms to demonstrate that workers use cultural codes of “purity” and “pollution” to represent and evaluate individuals, interests, and relations. The findings buttress the continuing relevance of social class for explaining social identity, consciousness, and antagonism.
author Carruth, Paul Andrew
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title Unemployed Steelworkers, Social Class, and the Construction of Morality
title_short Unemployed Steelworkers, Social Class, and the Construction of Morality
title_full Unemployed Steelworkers, Social Class, and the Construction of Morality
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title_full_unstemmed Unemployed Steelworkers, Social Class, and the Construction of Morality
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