Contents // Acknowledgements viii // 1 Introduction: From Affluence to Reflexivity 1 // Part I Theoretical Preliminaries // 2 Reflexivity and its Discontents 17 // 3 Conceptualizing Class and Reconceptualizing Reflexivity 44 // Part II Searching for the Reflexive Worker // 4 Educational Reproduction Today 77 // 5 Topographical Trajectories 106 // 6 Distinction and Denigration 133 // 7 ’Class’ as Discursive and Political Construct 160 // 8 Conclusion: Rigid Relations through Shifting Substance 187 // Appendix: The Search Process 196 // Notes 215 // References 224 // Index 239 // vii