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Must read link: #liz_beths on class, culture and ‘humour’

Must read link: #liz_beths on class, culture and ‘humour’

By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2011

Cultural disdain is about more than humour. It’s the new politics.

Posted in Culture, Featured, Politics, Race, Sociology | Tagged #boganmovies, #tightsarenotpants, Australian politics, Bogans, Chavs, civil disorder, class, cultural sociology, Culture, Culture Wars, David Nichols, distinction, humour, ideology, left flank, Liz_beths, london burning, neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism, Owen Jones, Pauline Hanson, Things Bogans Like, twitter | 211 Responses

May Day, Paul Lucas, Australian Labor and class politics

By Mark Bahnisch on May 3, 2010

In Queensland today, we celebrated Labour Day as a public holiday. In the wake of the privatisation imbroglio perpetrated by the Bligh government, expectations were that solidarity between Labor and labour wouldn’t be at the forefront of the Brisbane May [...]

Posted in Activism, Brisbane, Economics, Government, History, Industrial Relations, Masculinity, Policy, Politics, Queensland, Sociology | Tagged ACTU, ALP, Andrew Fraser, Anna Bligh, bionics, Brisbane, Brisbane Times, British Columbia, business, canada, casualisation, class, class politics, corporatisation, corporatism, Henry review, ideology, Industrial Relations, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, labor party, Labour Day, labour movement, LHMU, March, masculinism, May Day, Paul Lucas, Peter Beattie, privatisation, QR, queensland government, Queensland Labor, social class, Sociology, super, superannuation, tax, unions, workerism, working class, workplace relations | 48 Responses

Guest post by Andrew Crook: In a class of their own – Obama staffers and social change

By Guest Poster on January 27, 2009

In the 2005 “dramatic documentary” The American Ruling Class, big oil heir turned Harper’s editor turned armchair socialist Lewis Lapham narrates the career choices confronting a group of shiny young Yale graduates. With their future at the crossroads, Lapham asks, [...]

Posted in Activism, Ethics, Policy, Sociology, Technology, USA | Tagged Alain touraine, class, Ethics, Lewis Lapham, neo-liberalism, Obama administration, Obama staffers, Politics, public service, social change, social movements, Sociology, Technology, USA, Wall Street, welfare policy, West Wing | 4 Responses

Economic inequality and attitudes towards same-sex relationships

By Kim on October 7, 2008

There’s a really fascinating post at scatterplot from sociologist Tina Fetner. She reports on research with Bob Andersen just published in the American Journal of Political Science. Their interest was sparked by a sudden shift in Canada and the United [...]

Posted in Economics, International, Lesbian and Gay, Politics, Sexuality, Sociology | Tagged Bob Andersen, class, comparative attitudes research, comparative political science, discrimination, homosexuality, inequality, political science, political sociology, post-materialism, same sex relationships, Sexuality, social class, social issues, Sociology, Tina Fetner, tolerance | 20 Responses

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