Posted by andyb on September 03, 2006 at 16:07:46 from 81.131.52.102 user beardbiter.
In Reply to: Re: The S&A Films posted by PeterH on September 03, 2006 at 13:35:21:
No need to be so polite! Of course sociology is mostly of b******s, that's why I like it. It's just that it is slightly less a load of b**s than other forms of knowledge about people in society. And unfortunately, class in its most boring form of father's occupation, is a very good predictor of lots of quite important things like how much you are likely to earn, who you may marry and how long you will live. Now of course, we don't know what, if anything, the Amazons' father did but all the evidence I've cited suggests that they belonged to the monied classes.
As for a sociological matrix into which they don't quite fit, I'm not sure if my one dimensional analysis could be dignified with the term 'matrix'. I could provide you with one if you really want but off course people's positions in society is far more complex take the Altounyans or the ransomes for example. Economic and cultural capital, birth order, upward or downward mobility of parents (and evetns like AR's father dying when he was young) ethnicity, religion etc, etc All of this would have applied to the Amazons had AR cared to fill in the details but it wouldn't have stoped them being "toffs' as you put it.