Crean, Margaret (2018) Affective formations of class consciousness: Care consciousness. The Sociological Review, 66 (6). ISSN 0038-0261

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Abstract

This article explores affective formations of class consciousness. Through autoethnography and conversations and discussion sessions with working class women, the article contributes to a sociology of social class that recognises how people come to know their class positioning in spaces outside of waged relations. The article argues that affective relations and affective inequalities inform women’s experiences and consciousness of inequality generated by the class system. Their consciousness of the class system is narrated through their care relational identities, discontent with affective inequalities generated by the class system and their attitudes and actions for social change. This implies an affective formation of class consciousness referred to as care consciousness. Care consciousness takes seriously what is refused legitimacy at a sociological and political level yet articulated privately by the women as they discuss experiences of the class system.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	affective relations; care; consciousness; gender; inequality; social class;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Applied Social Studies
Item ID:	19030
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026117751341
Depositing User:	Dr Margaret Crean
Date Deposited:	16 Oct 2024 10:42
Journal or Publication Title:	The Sociological Review
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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