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Mediated class-ifications

Representations of class and culture in contemporary British television

Goldsmiths College, University of London, d.morley{at}gold.ac.uk

This article takes, as its point of departure, recent debates about the representation of working-class life, especially the lives of the 'feckless poor', on reality television in the UK. These issues are contextualized by reference to a set of wider-ranging historical debates about: a) the category of class as a mode of social determination (and as an explanatory model); b) the relations of language, class and culture in educational sociology and in community publishing; and, c) in relation to classical Marxism's theorization of both the 'respectable' working class and the lumpen proletariat. The article concludes with a consideration of debates about the representation of the working class in the contemporary British TV drama series Shameless.

Key Words: class • class consciousness • culture • individualism • language • lumpen proletariat • reality television • representation

European Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 12, No. 4, 487-508 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1367549409343850


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