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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:4914891 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4914891 N2 - In this valuable study, drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Derek Wynne looks at how the middle class constructs and defends its social identity. Through the study of residents living on a fashionable, recently constructed housing estate, "The Heath", which contains its own private leisure and sports facilities, he considers the extent to which social identity within the new middle class can be considered to relate more to experience associated with leisure and cultural consumption than to experiences related to productive activity. Working from a theory that the traditional middle class has fragmented along social and recreational lines, Wynn finds evidence suggesting these people regard themselve less as workers who occasionally relax, than as highly-specialized "leisurers" who, though necessity or avocation, work. SN - 0415038340 TI - Leisure, Lifestyle and the New Middle Class: A Case Study (International Library of Sociology) PB - Routledge AU - Wynne, Derek PY - 1998/01/29/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&path=ASIN/0415038340 ER -