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Englishness as class: A re-examination.
- Source :
- Ethnicities; Sep2012, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p394-408, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- This paper considers the significance of class to English national identity. It takes one systematic exposition of the argument that Englishness has been traditionally and intimately bound up with class: George Schopflin’s essay Englishness: citizenship, ethnicity and class, published in 2000. Schopflin thought that Englishness was distinctive in European terms by its class rather than its ethnic character and that this provided people with a very secure and very stable identity, though he did observe a more ethnicised form of identity emerging at the beginning of the new millennium. This is a strong definition of Englishness as class and the paper reassesses its claims in terms of recent research on identity. It argues for a more nuanced understanding of the role of class but suggests that the modus vivendi of English class relations still distinguishes its identity within Europe and the United Kingdom. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- SOCIAL classes
ETHNICITY
NATIONALISM
PATRIOTISM
ENGLISH people
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14687968
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Ethnicities
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 78918212
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796812448018