{"id":528,"date":"2011-08-31T23:33:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2011-08-31T23:33:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T23:33:41","slug":"subcultures-and-social-class-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Subcultures and Social Class (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a number of articles, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Chavs-Demonization-Working-Owen-Jones\/dp\/184467696X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1314833437&#038;sr=8-1\">book<\/a> even, about the idea that the concept of the Chav is anti-working-class. I&#8217;m not so sure. The problem that I have with this is that it has in the background the idea that the Chav subculture represents <em>the<\/em> core working class culture, rather than being a fairly small subculture within working class culture. <\/p>\n<p>It is a pity that the idea of the decent, hard-working working class has faded into obscurity over the last couple of decades. To a lot of commentators in the media, the term <em>working class<\/em> means feckless underclass; anyone who holds down a solid job and has a fairly stable family life is portrayed as being a member of the (perhaps lower) middle class. I feel that this rather misses out on a large chunk of the population, the &#8220;respectable&#8221;, hard-working, law-abiding working classes who don&#8217;t see being middle class as a necessary aspiration (but probably don&#8217;t mind if people do have that aim). As someone from such a background I find it particularly unpleasant that this group is more-or-less invisible in current British society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a number of articles, a book even, about the idea that the concept of the Chav is anti-working-class. I&#8217;m not so sure. The problem that I have with this is that it has in the background the idea that the Chav subculture represents the core working class culture, rather than being a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}