Marie Moran

TL;DR: The authors used data from recent studies of second-level education in Ireland, and data compiled on the newly emerging ‘grind’ schools (private tuition centres) to outline how the availability of economic capital allows middle-class parents to choose fee-paying schooling or to opt out of the formal school sector entirely to employ market solutions to their class ambitions.

TL;DR: A pre-history of the idea of identity in capitalist societies can be found in this paper, where the authors present a keyword analysis of identity and identity politics in the twenty-first century.

TL;DR: The Social Impact of the Arts: An Intellectual History as mentioned in this paper, by Eleonora Belfiore and Oliver Bennett, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 248 pp., £18.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-230-27351-1

TL;DR: In this article, Williams's encounter with the discipline of sociology is traced and distinguished as a critical alternative to the presently ascendant Neo-Durkeimian school of cultural sociology, and a key concept of Williams's cultural materialism is selected illustratively and proposed as a powerful analytical tool for studying the production and technological mediation of typical modes of communicative sociality in the early twenty-first century.

TL;DR: This article drew on the cultural materialist paradigm articulated by Raymond Williams to offer a radical historicization of the idea of identity, with a view to clarifying and resolving some of the problems of identity.