His book seems to suggest that it is merely a collection of 'partisan milieux', networks, cultures and political identities, essentially at local level.
Although much of it is, there is also a considerable amount - for a substantial proportion of the population at least - focused on other, place-based milieux, notably the workplace.
This may relate to the fact that it was composed in relation to the milieux of the administration of finance rather than those dealing with astronomy or the calendar.
Adapting to new milieux the groups constantly renegotiated their identities and forged enduring communities.
Although the two sites clearly differ in terms of constituency, they are located in similar licensing milieux.
I obviously hark back to this famous analysis in discussing two kinds of modern working-class milieux.
It promises a world in which geographical or social distance can be obliterated and unfettered access to different social classes and milieux becomes possible.
The traditional proletarian, traditional deferential and privatised workers lived in differently structured milieux.
