@article{ref1,
title="The self-control ethos and the 'chav': Unpacking cultural representations of the white working class",
journal="Culture and psychology",
year="2011",
author="Adams, Matthew and Raisborough, Jayne",
volume="17",
number="1",
pages="81-97",
abstract="This paper applies Joffe and Staerklé's self-control ethos to cultural representations of the white working class. We initially follow their identification of three aspects of the self-control ethos -- mind, body, and destiny -- to show the explanatory value of the concept, before considering four possible avenues through which the self-control ethos may be developed: the extent to which it is the interrelationship between the separate aspects of the self-control ethos which lends them their visceral, emotional, and symbolic power; that gender differentiation is an important element in the specific content of stereotypes; that some stereotype content relates to issues of containment; and that a tighter contextualization is afforded to the self-control ethos by considering self and other relations in the terms of a consumer culture. These are offered as possible directions for the future development of a social representational approach sensitive to the contemporary cultural context.<p />",
language="",
issn="1354-067X",
doi="10.1177/1354067X10388852",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067X10388852"
}