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I'm not by any stretch arguing that there aren't also cultural dimensions to class, by the way, but the contortion of the term 'working class' to mean older adult male with socially conservative views has been hugely damaging to political discourse.
Just to be clear, are you saying that the contortion you refer to is an inaccurate one perpetuated by more progressive types (i.e., your average metropolitan liberal elite) or an actual shift in the demographic of those who self-identify as working class?
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The ways in which class terminology gets thrown around seemingly at random really infuriates me. If 'working class' is to be anything other than a completely voluntarist identity then the primary aspects we need to consider are material—someone's relation to the means of production, whether someone owns assets etc. etc.
Here are a couple of good recent articles on it: https://www.thesociologicalreview.com/a-sociology-of-class-without-feeling-reimagining-the-politics-of-class-in-sociology/
https://autonomy.work/portfolio/berry-class-rent/
I'm not by any stretch arguing that there aren't also cultural dimensions to class, by the way, but the contortion of the term 'working class' to mean older adult male with socially conservative views has been hugely damaging to political discourse.