roachboy

agreed, zen: i hope i did not give the impression that i was offerring anything like a real analysis--the notion that class tends toward a highly level of transparency as you move up the economic chain comes mostly from bourdieu--but within particular communities--like academics, which i know all too well--you see class boundaries being enforced in often quite repellent ways--but i would expect that this enforcement has a particular explanation, to do with the institutional space academics occupy, particularly (it seems from your posts) in britian. all i would say is that the examples you give seem to me quite particular, almost anecdotal. but my post was perhaps too general, so the point is taken.

i was trying to make a different argument in any event--that the direction takenn by the posts immediately before the first one i made was already resolving the problem of how to articulate these variables by shifting class to a different logical level than the others--but it did not seem obvious to the folk i was reacting to that they were doing it. in which case, the problem posed at the outset of this thread dissolves. that was as far as i really meant to go.

interesting responses, however.

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