Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-220) and index.

1. The cultural turn, sociology and class analysis / Fiona Devine and Mike Savage -- 2. Social stratification and social inequality : models of intersectionality and identity / Floya Anthias -- 3. The re-branding of class : propertising culture / Beverley Skeggs -- 4. Class and culture in Germany / Michael Vester -- 5. Local habitus and working-class culture / Mike Savage, Gaynor Bagnall and Brian Longhurst -- 6. Memory magic : how a working-class neighborhood became an imagined community and class started to matter when it lost its base / Talja Blokland -- 7. Middle-class identities in the United States / Fiona Devine -- 8. Social change and social identity : postmodernity, reflexive modernisation and the transformation of social identities in Australia / Tim Phillips and Mark Western -- 9. Class analysis : beyond the cultural turn / Rosemary Crompton and John Scott.