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‘Social Change, Friendship and Civic Participation’

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  • Yaojun Li
  • Mike Savage
  • Andrew Pickles

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This paper studies the changing distribution of social capital and its impact on class formation in England and Wales from a ‘class structural’ perspective. It compares data from the Social Mobility Inquiry (1972) and the British Household Panel Survey (1992 and 1998) to show a distinct change in the class profiling of membership in civic organisations, with traditionally working-class dominated associations losing their working-class character, and middle-class dominated associations becoming even more middle-class dominated. Similar changes are evident for class-differentiated patterns of friendship. Our study indicates the class polarization of social capital in England and Wales.

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  • Yaojun Li & Mike Savage & Andrew Pickles, 2003. "‘Social Change, Friendship and Civic Participation’," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 8(4), pages 111-127, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socres:v:8:y:2003:i:4:p:111-127
    DOI: 10.5153/sro.863
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    1. Geoff Payne, 1987. "Mobility and Social Class," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Employment and Opportunity, chapter 8, pages 189-192, Palgrave Macmillan.
    2. Yaojun Li & Mike Savage & Gindo Tampubolon & Alan Warde & Mark Tomlinson, 2002. "Dynamics of Social Capital: Trends and Turnover in Associational Membership in England and Wales, 1972-1999," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 7(3), pages 117-133, August.
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