Conclusion: Reimagining Class

Paternoster, Henry

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“…This includes developing a public, sociologically inspired vocabulary for discussing socially structured inequalities in which scourges such as racism and sexism are considered in precise and specific ways, rather than projected onto unhelpful stereotypes. This discussion also underlines the usefulness of gaining sociological understanding of class phenomena by positioning them within socio-historical frameworks (Paternoster, 2017).…”

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“…In discussing these periods, we draw on texts that provided influential analyses of their significance. We work closely with historical textual analyses, as very little exists in the way of synthetic literature charting the transformation of rival class discourses across the breadth of Australian history (see Paternoster, 2017). This article builds on previous work identifying ‘the Australian Legend’ as a formative part of class discourse in Australia (Paternoster, 2017).…”

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The enigma of the bogan and its significance to class in Australia: A socio-historical analysis

Paternoster

Warr

Jacobs

2018

Journal of Sociology

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This analysis offers a historical perspective to chart the contested discourses that inform understandings of the figure of the ‘bogan’, suggesting its evocation reflects unresolved tensions and accumulated meanings left by the various reconfigurations of class politics since colonial settlement in Australia. We focus on three key historical periods to show how socio-political formations influence both classed identities and class relations: the 1890s, when the ethos of the labour movement was established as the central imaginative motif of a nascent Australian nation; the post-war years, when Robert Menzies offered a political project grounded in the experiences of the middle classes; and the 1990s, where there were complex translocations of class allegiances. We trace how several meaning(s) of class have accumulated and been reworked across these periods and, related to this, how the ‘bogan’ is a composite of left- and right-wing political ideas that articulate different kinds of virtue and unworthiness.

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