Subcultural capital and the female ‘underclass’? A feminist response to an underclass discourse

A contextual definition of the underclass

Assessing whether or not an underclass exists, how it came to be, and what policies are likely to affect it all turn on how the term "underclass" is defined. The underclass has been variously defined by any or all of four characteristics: chronic poverty; nonnormative behavior with respect to income generation and family formation; spatial concentration of such poverty and/or behavior; and inte...

Women in Poverty: A New Global Underclass

The Underclass: Long-Term Unemployment, Race And Space In The American Context

The emergence of a "digital underclass" in Great Britain and Sweden: Changing reasons for digital exclusion

Research into reasons for internet non-use has been mostly based on one-off cohort studies and focused on single-country contexts. This paper shows that motivations for being offline changed between 2005 and 2013 amongst non-and ex-users in two high diffusion European countries. Analyses of Swedish and British data demonstrate that non-user populations have become more concentrated in vulnerabl...

Crime, Neighborhood Perceptions, and the Underclass" the Relationship between Fear of Crime and Class Position

Fear of crime and the underclass represent two of the more prominent topics of discussion within the realms of criminology and sociology over the past several decades. There is little research, however, tying these topics together. Recently, a call has been reissued for the further understanding of the relationship between crime and class. Such an examination is essential to the understanding o...