Social Class in the 21st Century

　　對現代英國來說，社會階級劃分比以往任何時候都還要明顯？這對社會流動與階級不平等，又帶來什麼樣的影響？
 
　　《Social Class in the 21st Century》以BBC英國大型階級調查（The Great British Class Survey）為基礎，為這些問題提出解答。
 
　　在書中，作者Mike Savage和負責英國大型階級調查的團隊，藉由經濟、社會、文化三大分類，深入探討階級的變遷過程以及社會影響。Savage得到的顛覆性結論是，儘管世人認為階級已消弭無蹤，但其實在今日社會，階級比以往任何時候都更有力量左右你我生活。

　　A fresh take on social class from the experts behind the BBC's 'Great British Class Survey'.

　　Why does social class matter more than ever in Britain today?
　　How has the meaning of class changed?
　　What does this mean for social mobility and inequality?

　　In this book Mike Savage and the team of sociologists responsible for the Great British Class Survey look beyond the labels to explore how and why our society is changing and what this means for the people who find themselves in the margins as well as in the centre.

　　Their new conceptualization of class is based on the distribution of three kinds of capital - economic (inequalities in income and wealth), social (the different kinds of people we know) and cultural (the ways in which our leisure and cultural preferences are exclusive) - and provides incontrovertible evidence that class is as powerful and relevant today as it's ever been.

作者簡介

　　Mike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics. He has written this book in collaboration with the team of sociology experts behind the Gret British Class Survey: Niall Cunningham, Fiona Devine, Sam Friedman, Daniel Laurison, Lisa Mckenzie, Andrew Miles, Helene Snee and Paul Wakeling.