Social class in contemporary british society and how it is portrayed in the newsprint media

Abstract

The presented article represents one of possible components of the author’s future dissertation paper and derives from Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of the field of journalism within his theory of constructive structuralism. It will be applied to the issue of class and social stratification in present-day Britain and how it is addressed by the particular British print news media. The author will divide the final dissertation thesis into three parts. The first should deal with the empirical depiction of what can be read in the selected British print news media. The second will concentrate on the theoretical interpretation of what can be read and what is concealed and manipulated, that is, the specific nature of the journalistic field. The third section will involve the image of the world and its class system within modern British society as constructed by the journalists in the specific British print news media.