Cultural Production among Post-affluent Scottish Working-class Writers.
Citation
(2017) Cultural Production among Post-affluent Scottish Working-class Writers., no. 75.
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to explore the cultural production of post-affluent working
class writers in Scotland from a sociological perspective. Semi-structured interviews
were carried out with seven participants to produce an original data-set that was
analysed to identify major themes. The data highlighted how the literary and sociological
imagination can work together to present a deeper understanding of society and culture
through the idiom of fiction; an understanding that may otherwise go undetected among
much purely sociological texts. This research identified participants as writers in the
'organic intellectual' tradition of Antonio Gramsci. Allocating the writers recognition in
terms of what their writing can offer in presenting a deeper understanding of society and
culture. The main finding is that authors' exposure to higher education was key to
incorporating locality in their literary work.