Cars, social habit and class

One of the reasons why people start car driving is that it is – or used to be – quite a social habit: a chance to share time and a mutually enjoyable activity with other car drivers in a relaxed if polluted atmosphere. There is or used to be a whole culture of car driving, with its conventions and rules governing social interaction and friendliness that were unique to driving. However, along with car driving itself, this aspect of sociability has been suppressed. I’ve been reading Watching the English by Kate Fox: an anthropological study of English behaviour and culture. The author discusses literally hundreds of unofficial but nonetheless binding ‘rules’ which, she says, govern English social interaction, including many rules relating to drinking and pub culture

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