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Papers by Edward Haddon
Sociological Perspectives, 2021
While some scholars suggest that awareness of income inequality is strongest when the actual leve... more While some scholars suggest that awareness of income inequality is strongest when the actual level of inequality is high, others find that individuals’ awareness of income inequality is largely unresponsive to actual inequality. In this article, we argue that individuals in different social class positions often respond to the actual levels of income inequality distinctively, and therefore a class perspective is essential in understanding how actual inequality and people’s perceptions of it are associated. Using data from the social inequality modules of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP, 1992, 1999, and 2009) as well as the World Income Inequality Database ( https://www.wider.unu.edu/ ) and the World Inequality Database ( https://wid.world/ ), we consider how actual inequality interacts with social class to shape people’s perceptions of income inequality across 64 country-years between 1992 and 2009. We find that overall, perceptions of inequality are higher among the...
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 2021
While some scholars suggest that critical attitudes towards inequality follow the class gradient ... more While some scholars suggest that critical attitudes towards inequality follow the class gradient during recessions, others find that classes are largely unresponsive. In this article, I consider how party affiliation interacts with class to shape perceptions of inequality during a recession. I argue that it is important to look at the interplay between class and partisanship to better understand individual views towards inequality during times of economic crises. Leveraging data from the International Social Survey Programme before and after The Great Recession, I find that the recession did not raise awareness of inequality across classes. This is because party affiliation moderates the relationship differently according to class. Specifically, party affiliation is more important in shaping the inequality views for the upper class and less so for the working class. Future research needs to consider the interplay between class and politics when exploring how inequality attitudes respond to economic crises.
The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate a... more The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled: Attitudes towards inequality in a cross-national perspective. Tracing the endurance of social class in modern societies.
David W. Shwalb, Barbara J. Shwalb, and Michael E. Lamb, (eds.). Fathers in Cultural Context. New... more David W. Shwalb, Barbara J. Shwalb, and Michael E. Lamb, (eds.). Fathers in Cultural Context. New York: Routledge (2013). 448 pages, ISBN: 9781848729483Fathers in Cultural Context represents an ambitious attempt to explore and combine into a comprehensive collection two relatively under researched areas within family studies: fatherhood and cross-cultural variations in parenting. In doing so, the book makes an important contribution to our understanding of fathering in many of the world's most populated countries.The bulk of the book is divided up into five sections which explore fatherhood within each major continent. Part two focuses on Asia; part three Africa; part four the Americas; part five Europe; and part six Australia. Each chapter is structured along similar lines, including an opening case story; the cultural background and influences on fathers; a review of related research; "sub-cultural variations" in fathering; the social and economic impacts on fatherin...
International Journal of Sociology, 2019
Some scholars see class as increasingly irrelevant in shaping opinions toward inequality, while o... more Some scholars see class as increasingly irrelevant in shaping opinions toward inequality, while others maintain that it endures. However, what is often problematic with research in this area is the conflation of class and status. Further, contemporary accounts of peoples' perceptions of inequality often draw on insights from stratification or from political affiliation but do not consider the interplay between these. This article fills this gap by exploring perceptions of inequality through class, status, and political perspectives. Drawing on data from the International Social Survey Program, I investigate how class, status, and partisanship affect critical attitudes toward inequality differently. The findings reveal that social class influences how people perceive income inequality in their society and that these effects are different from that of status. Further, the results reveal the profound effect that vote choice has on the class effects toward perceptions of inequality. The evidence produced in this article casts considerable doubt on those claiming the demise of class, provides new evidence in support of the separation of social class and status in terms of perceptions of inequality, and also resonates with research on the impact of vote choice in shaping orientations toward economic and political equality.
YOUNG, 2014
The relevance and continuation of class in late modern society has been at the heart of contempor... more The relevance and continuation of class in late modern society has been at the heart of contemporary debates in youth studies. Beck and others argue that major social changes are impacting individual’s relationships with status-based classes. Individuals have been ‘disembedded’ from traditional communal contexts and re-embedded into new modes in which the ability to create life paths and new identities is achieved through individual reflexivity. How these changes and developments are impacting the class relationships and trajectories of young people is an important area of debate. It has been suggested that while the young see individual solutions and choices as central to their lives, outcomes are still strongly connected to social class. This contradiction has been seen as an ‘epistemological fallacy’ where a disjuncture between objective and subjective dimensions obscures underlying class relationships. This article draws on data collected from an ESRC research programme on Pathw...
Journal of Youth Studies, 2013
ABSTRACT This article draws upon Bourdieu's concept of ‘cultural capital’ to examine how ... more ABSTRACT This article draws upon Bourdieu's concept of ‘cultural capital’ to examine how working-class young people negotiate and navigate everyday life in their neighbourhoods. Young people's relationship with cultural capital has traditionally been conceptualised by its value in the formal institutional setting (i.e. schools); being ‘owned’ and ‘used’ by parents or professional workers such as teachers to advantage (or disadvantage) certain groups; or by being passed down to young people through intergenerational linkages. Limited recognition has been given to the embodied and objectified nature of cultural capital in the lives of the young themselves or how it may operate in different informal settings and social interactions to structure and situate their individual agency. This article centralises the voices of a group of young people living in British working-class neighbourhoods to show how certain cultural illiteracies and cultural assets help them manage everyday life. Life in such areas is both ‘dangerous’ and ‘risky’ and requires them to draw upon forms of cultural capital recognised amongst their peers to help them construct ‘safe’ and ‘successful’ routes through working-class transitions.
Journal of Sociology, 2014
Using data collected by two New Zealand surveys in 1999 and 2009, I explore the connection betwee... more Using data collected by two New Zealand surveys in 1999 and 2009, I explore the connection between the objective social class positions of individuals and their own subjective perceptions of these circumstances. Class position is ‘operationalized’ using a newer variant of Goldthorpe’s schema, the European Socioeconomic Classification (ESeC). Through regression analyses, it is demonstrated that ‘objective’ forces contain positive predictive consequences for self-placement. More importantly, the results suggest that as predictors of subjective class, the effects of class have endured while those of education and income – understood here to represent measures of socioeconomic position – have declined. The empirical evidence produced suggests that class continues to generate subjectively salient identities, leading one to deduce that there are no grounds for stating that it is no longer a significant feature in society.
International Journal on School Disaffection, 2013
ABSTRACT This article draws on material from the ESRC funded 'Pathways into and out of cr... more ABSTRACT This article draws on material from the ESRC funded 'Pathways into and out of crime' research programme (Grant number L330253001) to explore how a group of educationally disaffected young people negotiate and try to manage their desistance from offending. We argue that the ability to be reflexive represents a form of embodied cultural capital, whose acquisition is difficult for those young people at the bottom of the social structure. Realizing that a 'life path' embedded in criminal activities will not lead to wider legitimacy and inclusion is often the first step in creating the self-reflexive subject. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu we argue that these young people recognize the limited 'use value' of their previous educational experience and capital and actively engage in self-reflexivity to create transitions from school to work that act as a route into crime free futures. In this context their 'habitus' and accrued 'cultural capital' fails to provide them with the resources in which to manage such transitions although through this analysis it becomes clear that the social and ecological 'position' of these young people is both structuring and limiting to their opportunities and 'choices' to be socially mobile or even to move away from crime.
Sociological Perspectives, 2021
While some scholars suggest that awareness of income inequality is strongest when the actual leve... more While some scholars suggest that awareness of income inequality is strongest when the actual level of inequality is high, others find that individuals’ awareness of income inequality is largely unresponsive to actual inequality. In this article, we argue that individuals in different social class positions often respond to the actual levels of income inequality distinctively, and therefore a class perspective is essential in understanding how actual inequality and people’s perceptions of it are associated. Using data from the social inequality modules of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP, 1992, 1999, and 2009) as well as the World Income Inequality Database ( https://www.wider.unu.edu/ ) and the World Inequality Database ( https://wid.world/ ), we consider how actual inequality interacts with social class to shape people’s perceptions of income inequality across 64 country-years between 1992 and 2009. We find that overall, perceptions of inequality are higher among the...
Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 2021
While some scholars suggest that critical attitudes towards inequality follow the class gradient ... more While some scholars suggest that critical attitudes towards inequality follow the class gradient during recessions, others find that classes are largely unresponsive. In this article, I consider how party affiliation interacts with class to shape perceptions of inequality during a recession. I argue that it is important to look at the interplay between class and partisanship to better understand individual views towards inequality during times of economic crises. Leveraging data from the International Social Survey Programme before and after The Great Recession, I find that the recession did not raise awareness of inequality across classes. This is because party affiliation moderates the relationship differently according to class. Specifically, party affiliation is more important in shaping the inequality views for the upper class and less so for the working class. Future research needs to consider the interplay between class and politics when exploring how inequality attitudes respond to economic crises.
The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate a... more The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled: Attitudes towards inequality in a cross-national perspective. Tracing the endurance of social class in modern societies.
David W. Shwalb, Barbara J. Shwalb, and Michael E. Lamb, (eds.). Fathers in Cultural Context. New... more David W. Shwalb, Barbara J. Shwalb, and Michael E. Lamb, (eds.). Fathers in Cultural Context. New York: Routledge (2013). 448 pages, ISBN: 9781848729483Fathers in Cultural Context represents an ambitious attempt to explore and combine into a comprehensive collection two relatively under researched areas within family studies: fatherhood and cross-cultural variations in parenting. In doing so, the book makes an important contribution to our understanding of fathering in many of the world's most populated countries.The bulk of the book is divided up into five sections which explore fatherhood within each major continent. Part two focuses on Asia; part three Africa; part four the Americas; part five Europe; and part six Australia. Each chapter is structured along similar lines, including an opening case story; the cultural background and influences on fathers; a review of related research; "sub-cultural variations" in fathering; the social and economic impacts on fatherin...
International Journal of Sociology, 2019
Some scholars see class as increasingly irrelevant in shaping opinions toward inequality, while o... more Some scholars see class as increasingly irrelevant in shaping opinions toward inequality, while others maintain that it endures. However, what is often problematic with research in this area is the conflation of class and status. Further, contemporary accounts of peoples' perceptions of inequality often draw on insights from stratification or from political affiliation but do not consider the interplay between these. This article fills this gap by exploring perceptions of inequality through class, status, and political perspectives. Drawing on data from the International Social Survey Program, I investigate how class, status, and partisanship affect critical attitudes toward inequality differently. The findings reveal that social class influences how people perceive income inequality in their society and that these effects are different from that of status. Further, the results reveal the profound effect that vote choice has on the class effects toward perceptions of inequality. The evidence produced in this article casts considerable doubt on those claiming the demise of class, provides new evidence in support of the separation of social class and status in terms of perceptions of inequality, and also resonates with research on the impact of vote choice in shaping orientations toward economic and political equality.
YOUNG, 2014
The relevance and continuation of class in late modern society has been at the heart of contempor... more The relevance and continuation of class in late modern society has been at the heart of contemporary debates in youth studies. Beck and others argue that major social changes are impacting individual’s relationships with status-based classes. Individuals have been ‘disembedded’ from traditional communal contexts and re-embedded into new modes in which the ability to create life paths and new identities is achieved through individual reflexivity. How these changes and developments are impacting the class relationships and trajectories of young people is an important area of debate. It has been suggested that while the young see individual solutions and choices as central to their lives, outcomes are still strongly connected to social class. This contradiction has been seen as an ‘epistemological fallacy’ where a disjuncture between objective and subjective dimensions obscures underlying class relationships. This article draws on data collected from an ESRC research programme on Pathw...
Journal of Youth Studies, 2013
ABSTRACT This article draws upon Bourdieu's concept of ‘cultural capital’ to examine how ... more ABSTRACT This article draws upon Bourdieu's concept of ‘cultural capital’ to examine how working-class young people negotiate and navigate everyday life in their neighbourhoods. Young people's relationship with cultural capital has traditionally been conceptualised by its value in the formal institutional setting (i.e. schools); being ‘owned’ and ‘used’ by parents or professional workers such as teachers to advantage (or disadvantage) certain groups; or by being passed down to young people through intergenerational linkages. Limited recognition has been given to the embodied and objectified nature of cultural capital in the lives of the young themselves or how it may operate in different informal settings and social interactions to structure and situate their individual agency. This article centralises the voices of a group of young people living in British working-class neighbourhoods to show how certain cultural illiteracies and cultural assets help them manage everyday life. Life in such areas is both ‘dangerous’ and ‘risky’ and requires them to draw upon forms of cultural capital recognised amongst their peers to help them construct ‘safe’ and ‘successful’ routes through working-class transitions.
Journal of Sociology, 2014
Using data collected by two New Zealand surveys in 1999 and 2009, I explore the connection betwee... more Using data collected by two New Zealand surveys in 1999 and 2009, I explore the connection between the objective social class positions of individuals and their own subjective perceptions of these circumstances. Class position is ‘operationalized’ using a newer variant of Goldthorpe’s schema, the European Socioeconomic Classification (ESeC). Through regression analyses, it is demonstrated that ‘objective’ forces contain positive predictive consequences for self-placement. More importantly, the results suggest that as predictors of subjective class, the effects of class have endured while those of education and income – understood here to represent measures of socioeconomic position – have declined. The empirical evidence produced suggests that class continues to generate subjectively salient identities, leading one to deduce that there are no grounds for stating that it is no longer a significant feature in society.
International Journal on School Disaffection, 2013
ABSTRACT This article draws on material from the ESRC funded 'Pathways into and out of cr... more ABSTRACT This article draws on material from the ESRC funded 'Pathways into and out of crime' research programme (Grant number L330253001) to explore how a group of educationally disaffected young people negotiate and try to manage their desistance from offending. We argue that the ability to be reflexive represents a form of embodied cultural capital, whose acquisition is difficult for those young people at the bottom of the social structure. Realizing that a 'life path' embedded in criminal activities will not lead to wider legitimacy and inclusion is often the first step in creating the self-reflexive subject. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu we argue that these young people recognize the limited 'use value' of their previous educational experience and capital and actively engage in self-reflexivity to create transitions from school to work that act as a route into crime free futures. In this context their 'habitus' and accrued 'cultural capital' fails to provide them with the resources in which to manage such transitions although through this analysis it becomes clear that the social and ecological 'position' of these young people is both structuring and limiting to their opportunities and 'choices' to be socially mobile or even to move away from crime.