
2/25
• E. P. Thompson, "Preface," from The Making of the English Working Class (Vintage: 1966), pp. 9-14.
For 2/28:
• Video, Media Education Foundation, "Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class" [on Feb. 28]
3/2
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu
• http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/cultural-capital/
Recommended:
• Pierre Bourdieu, “The Aristocracy of Culture,” in Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste, trans. Richard Nice(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984), 11-96
For 3/4:
• Lawrence W. Levine, excerpts from Highbrow/Lowbrow: the emergence of cultural hierarchy in America, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988, pp. 13-23, 27-29, 30-33, 52-54, 56-81, 171-173, 176-184, 199, 221-225, 235-236. .
For 3/14:
• Roy Rosenzweig, "The Rise of the Saloon," in Mukerji and Schudson (eds.), Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cultural Studies, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991) , pp. 121-156
For 3/18:
• E. P. Thompson, "Time, Work-discipline, and Industrial Capitalism," Past and Present, No. 38, 1967, pp. 56-97.