Question

A study subtitled for this social group coined the term “penetrations” for insights into social reality and “limitations” for obstacles to understanding. Another study focusing on and subtitled for this social group satirizes pulp novels by making up a list of fake titles, such as Death Cab for Cutie. A seminal work of “resistance theory” by Paul Willis studies this social group, whose experience of cultural “drift” is analyzed in Richard (*) Hoggart’s The Uses of Literacy. The historian who introduced the term “moral economy” criticizes Methodism and treats the Luddites sympathetically in a 1963 book that sought to save (-5[1])this group from “the enormous condescension of posterity.” For 10 points, E.P. Thompson wrote about the “making” (10[1])of what economically-subordinate English social group? ■END■

ANSWER: the English working class [or the English proletariat; or English industrial workers; or English laborers; accept working-class kids; prompt on the English poor or lower class; prompt on English mass society; prompt on school children or kids]
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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Emmett LaurieRutgers DiasporaMaryland A98-5
Caleb KendrickMaryland ARutgers Diaspora11510

Summary

2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y6100%0%33%108.00
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y1100%0%100%115.00
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y367%0%0%104.50