Space, Culture and Society (SCaS)
Research projects
Value and Respect in White Working Class Cultures
Funded by ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural ChangeThis project will investigate a number of core issues that have been identified as central to arguments about changing cultural values, through ethnographic work with white working class cultures in South London, in light of the recent Respect agenda of the government. A range of epochal theories have argued in different ways that British society is less coherent, and more fragmented and individualised than was the case post-World War Two. These theories have been variously taken up within policy debates, and social cohesion is seen as something to be managed in various ways, most especially through the different values that make it up. Culture has always implied a statement of value in its multifarious uses, and it is the aim of this project to develop an understanding of how value informs culture in the working class cultures that are most often the target of policy intervention.
Project collaborators
- University of Manchester.
- The Open University.