Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite set out to understand how political change impacted ideas about class. She wound up explaining how changing ideas about class facilitated political change. That subtle evolution followed from two attributes of this impressive book: a formidable source base, including the revisiting of social surveys undertaken between 1968 and 2000; and an attentiveness to findings that neither those surveys, nor Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, initially intended. The result is not only a major contribution to understandings of class, popular identity and political change in the last third of Britain’s twentieth century, but also a model of the virtues of qualitative analysis for sociology and politics, no less than for history.

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弗洛伦斯·萨特克利夫·布莱思韦特（Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite），阶级，政治与英国的尊严下降，1968–2000

弗洛伦斯·萨特克利夫·布莱斯韦特（Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite）着手了解政治变革如何影响阶级观念。她总结说，改变阶级观念如何促进政治变革。这种微妙的变化源于这本令人印象深刻的书的两个属性：强大的资料来源，包括对1968年至2000年进行的社会调查的重新审视；以及对那些调查和Sutcliffe-Braithwaite最初都不打算的发现的关注。结果不仅是对二十世纪后半叶对阶级，民众身份和政治变革的理解的重要贡献，而且还是社会学和政治学定性分析的优点模型，其作用不亚于历史。