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In this conversation, Andrew Sayer and Bev Skeggs will address a question with significant relevance for society and culture today – does class still matter?

They will discuss how they understand class, the significance of class in relation to other classifications such as race, gender and sexuality, as well as why it is important to understand moral economies.They will also touch upon the different traditions within class analysis (such as stratification and Bourdieu) and how classed relations are lived, through dispositions such as entitlement and shame.This promises to be a very interesting conversation for those who have experienced class-related inequalities, as well as those who study or question how class is important today.

The ‘Big Questions’ series of summer seminars is hosted by the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. Attendees will be able to submit questions for Bev and Andrew through a text chat space during the event.

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Related reading: For A level students: The Idea of Class, for Holborn, M. (2016) Contemporary Sociology. Cambridge. Polity Andrew Sayer’s work: 2005 The Moral Significance of Class, Cambridge UP 2014 Why We Can’t Afford the Rich, Bristol: Policy Press, and University of Chicago Press. 2011 ‘Habitus, work and contributive justice’, Sociology, 45 (1) pp. 7–21 2011 ‘Misrecognition, the unequal division of labour and contributive injustice’ in M.Yar and S.Thompson (eds.) The Politics of Misrecognition, Ashgate, pp. 87-104 2016 ‘Responding to the Troubled Families Programme: framing the injuries of inequality’, Social Policy and Society, 16 (1), pp. 155-164 2020 ‘Critiquing – and rescuing - character’, Sociology, 54, 3, p. 460-481. Beverley Skeggs’ work: 1997 Formations of Class and Gender: Becoming Respectable (single authored monograph).London: Sage. 2004 Class, Self and Culture London. Routledge. 2015 Stratification or exploitation, domination, dispossession and devaluation? In Special Issue “Sociologies of Class: Elites and Critiques”, The Sociological Review. Volume 63, Issue 2, http://www.eurozine.com/journals/fronesis/issue/2008-04-02.html 2011 Imagining Personhood Differently: Person Value and Autonomist Working Class Value Practices. Sociological Review, 59 (3): 579-594