Working-class people must now perform ruling-class emotional norms to participate in public culture

Evidence

Now that the working-class perspective has been marginalised in the dominant British media and political culture, we increasingly live inside the mind of this psychically mutilated adolescent bourgeois male. Here, ostensible levity conceals deep fear and anxiety; self-mockery is a kind of homeopathic remedy that is used to ward off the threat of an annihilating humiliation. You must never appear too much of a swot; you must never look as if you might like or think anything that isn’t already socially approved. Even if you haven’t attended boarding school yourself, you are still required to operate in an emotional atmosphere set by those who did. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 743

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Feelings are cultivated according to culturally prescribed emotion work rules. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 86; Ruling class hegemony is secured through cultural and ideological leadership across civil society — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628; Classroom decorum rules covertly enforce bourgeois values on working-class students — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 353 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Classroom decorum rules covertly enforce bourgeois values on working-class students #exemplifies (0.92) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 353
• Feelings are cultivated according to culturally prescribed emotion work rules. #expands (0.90) — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 86
• Ruling class hegemony is secured through cultural and ideological leadership across civil society #corroborates (0.80) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 628
• Capitalism requires continuous re-education of the popular classes through cultural struggle #corroborates (0.80)
• Bourgeois distinction is a performed public suppression of bodily need #exemplifies (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 562
• Culture operates as a weapon of power in modern society #expands (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2697