A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience (Cambridge by Simon J. Charlesworth

By Simon J. Charlesworth

This relocating and tough 1999 e-book via Simon Charlesworth offers with the private effects of poverty and sophistication and the consequences of starting to be up as a part of a bad and stigmatized crew. Charlesworth examines those subject matters through focussing on a selected city - Rotherham - in South Yorkshire, England, and utilizing the private testimony of deprived those who reside there, got via recorded interviews and conversations. He applies to those existence tales the interpretative instruments of philosophy and social idea, drawing specifically at the paintings of Pierre Bourdieu and Merleau-Ponty, with a view to discover the social relatives and reports of a special yet principally overlooked social crew. The tradition defined during this publication isn't really specific to Rotherham and Charlesworth argues that the subjects and difficulties pointed out during this booklet may be usual to economically powerless and politically dispossessed humans everywhere.

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