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Do most Brits still think chav was/is an actual subculture? (lemmy.world)

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I remember an assignment we had was reading Chavs by Owen Jones, and based on that book it seems like sociologists agree that chav was never a subculture, it was the upper classes taking ordinary working class young people fashion and turned it into a made up, monstrous delinquent subculture to paint the working class people as bad or something. Owen Jones said it was not a subculture and nobody unironically identified as a chav. It was purely a classist insult.

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 5 days ago

As I told you when your unhealthy obsession presented itself last week, Owen Jones is a political activist and polemical opinion columnist, not a sociologist.