#Lifestyle (sociology)

[anghraine]

Speaking of the social context of P&P and Austen in general, and also just literature of that era, I'm always interested in how things like precisely formulated hierarchies of precedence and tables of ranked social classes interact with the more complex and nuanced details of class-based status and consequence on a pragmatic day-to-day level. I remembered reading a social historian discussing the pragmatics of class wrt eighteenth-century English life many years ago and finally tracked down the source:

"In spite of the number of people who got their living from manufacture or trade, fundamentally it was a society in which the ownership of land alone conveyed social prestige and full political rights. ... The apex of this society was the nobility. In the eyes of the Law only members of the House of Lords, the peerage in the strictest use of the word, were a class apart, enjoying special privileges and composing one of the estates of the realm. Their families were commoners: even the eldest sons of peers could sit in the House of Commons. It was therefore in the social rather than in the legal sense of the word that English society was a class society. Before the law all English people except the peers were in theory equal. Legal concept and social practice were, however, very different. When men spoke of the nobility, they meant the sons and daughters, the brothers and sisters, the uncles and aunts and cousins of the peers. They were an extremely influential and wealthy group.

"The peers and their near relations almost monopolized high political office. From these great families came the wealthiest Church dignitaries, the higher ranks in the army and navy. Many of them found a career in law; some even did not disdain the money to be made in trade. What gave this class its particular importance in the political life of the day was the way in which it was organized on a basis of family and connection ... in eighteenth-century politics men rarely acted as isolated individuals. A man came into Parliament supported by his friends and relations who expected, in return for this support, that he would further their interests to the extent of his parliamentary influence.

"Next in both political and social importance came the gentry. Again it is not easy to define exactly who were covered by this term. The Law knew nothing of gentle birth but Society recognized it. Like the nobility this group too was as a class closely connected with land. Indeed, the border line between the two classes is at times almost impossible to define ... Often these men are described as the squirearchy, this term being used to cover the major landowning families in every county who were not connected by birth with the aristocracy. Between them and the local nobility there was often considerable jealousy. The country gentleman considered himself well qualified to manage the affairs of his county without aristocratic interference.

"...The next great layer in society is perhaps best described the contemporary term 'the Middling Sort'. As with all eighteenth-century groups it is difficult to draw a clear line of demarcation between them and their social superiors and inferiors. No economic line is possible, for a man with no pretensions to gentility might well be more prosperous than many a small squire. There was even on the fringe between the two classes some overlapping of activities ... The ambitious upstart who bought an estate and spent his income as a gentleman, might be either cold-shouldered by his better-born neighbours or treated by them with a certain contemptuous politeness. If however his daughters were presentable and well dowered, and if his sons received the education considered suitable for gentlemen, the next generation would see the obliteration of whatever distinction still remained. The solid mass of the middling sort had however no such aspirations, or considered them beyond their reach.

"...This term [the poor] was widely used to designate the great mass of the manual workers. Within their ranks differences of income and of outlook were as varied as those that characterized the middle class. Once again the line of demarcation is hard to draw..."

—Dorothy Marshall, Eighteenth Century England (29-34)

(There's plenty more interesting information in the full chapter, especially regarding "the poor," and the chapter itself is contracted from a lengthier version published earlier.)

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𝐕𝐞𝐥𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐥 𝐳𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐞𝐜̧𝐢𝐲𝐨𝐫,

𝐆𝐮̈𝐧 𝐲𝐮̈𝐳𝐮̈ 𝐠𝐨̈𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬̧ 𝐠𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐢 𝐮𝐲𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐲𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐧.

Â𝐡 𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐚𝐝... 𝐊𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧 𝐝𝐮𝐲𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐠̆𝐢 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐳 𝐜̧𝐢𝐠̆𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐥𝐚𝐫... 𝐕𝐨𝐥𝐤𝐚𝐧𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐡𝐢 𝐨𝐥𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐚𝐧 𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐫 𝐲𝐮̈𝐫𝐞𝐤 𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐢...𝐓𝐚𝐬̧𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐲𝐚 𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐠̆𝐢 𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧 𝐜̧𝐚𝐭𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐬̧𝐢..🥀

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[everydayhybridity]

New Article - Conceptualising Grey Spaces in Skateboarding

This was one of those articles that just flowed. I was asked to do a talk for the SSHRED seminar series which is a exciting initiative working on issues of the environment and skateboarding. I thought I would take the opportunity to clarify the grey spaces concept I had generated in a previous paper 'Skateboarding in the Anthropocene' and then it turned into a mission statement about theory and method in skateboard studies. Here is the link to the article...

The article is published in the International Review for the Sociology of Sport and is free to access.

You can also check out the video of the seminar that was the catalyst for the paper below.

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[karsstorm]

Fuck the world with their little meddling shits, with their stupid compulsive behaviours, those filthy eyes of judgement, I'm God on my own. No need for preaching or eternal praise, the reflection of my eyes tells me I'm more than flesh and bones.

Succumb into the social norm, your soul hunger for the crumbles of existence, be supreme and mighty, be as you once pictured yourself when young. Respect your own view of life and act on it.

[reinacrbers]

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[jesslivinlife-x]

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