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This chapter combines a review of approaches to the relationship between class and culture with an examination of a range of ‘documentary fictions’ and empirical studies which have examined that relationship. It begins with an endorsement of the views of Maxwell in his realist take on culture and proceeds through a discussion of Bourdieu and Williams as major theorists of the class/culture relationship. It then turns to a review of what we can learn from the TV series Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, both of which examine change through time. The empirical studies, like the TV series, are primarily from the North East of England, a region with a strong class tradition and which has undergone extreme deindustrialization.
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Byrne, D. (2019). Class and Culture: The Dynamics of Cultural Change. In: Class After Industry. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02644-8_4
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