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The Uses of Literacy: Aspects of Working Class Life

Richard Hoggart

How did working class family life in England shape people's view of themselves, and what changed when mass entertainment arrived?

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Richard Hoggart

Why read it

  • You will see how a group draws strength from a sense of who is outside it
  • You will learn to question claims that class differences have simply vanished
  • You will look at tabloids and pulp fiction with a sharper eye, asking what they give their readers and what they take away

Who it is for

  • A teacher or social worker serving working class communities
  • A first generation graduate who moved between two worlds
  • A media critic weighing popular culture seriously

Contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Introduction
  3. Preface
  4. PART ONE
  5. An ‘Older’ Order
  6. Who are ‘The Working-Classes’?
  7. Landscape with Figures – A Setting
  8. ‘Them’ and ‘Us’
  9. The ‘Real’ World of People
  10. The Full Rich Life
  11. PART TWO
  12. Yielding Place to New
  13. Unbending the Springs of Action
  14. Invitations to a Candy-Floss World: The Newer Mass Art
  15. IT BEATS ME
  16. BLIMEY, THAT SURE IS FIGHTING TALK
  17. IT BEATS ME
  18. The Newer Mass Art: Sex in Shiny Packets
  19. Unbent Springs: A Note on a Scepticism Without Tension
  20. Unbent Springs: A Note on the Uprooted and the Anxious
  21. Conclusion
  22. An Interview with Richard Hoggart Studying Culture: Reflections and Assessments

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