Representation of social class
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- Created on: 15-04-16 19:56
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- Representation of social class
- Monary
- Positive
- Focus on every trivial detail of their lives
- Turns the Queen and her family into an on-going soap opera
- Glamour and mystique far greater than any other media personality
- Turns the Queen and her family into an on-going soap opera
- Sense of national identity
- The Queen is portrayed as the ultimate symbol of the nation
- So, media regards royal events, such as weddings and funerals, as national events
- The Queen is portrayed as the ultimate symbol of the nation
- Upper class
- Hierarchy and wealth
- Positive press received as celebrities who are somehow deserving of their position.
- Represented through
- Accents
- Estates
- Taste for shooting and hunting
- An eccentric or nostalgic way
- Usually wield greatest political époque
- In some countries wealth alone is sufficient to allow entry into the upper class
- In others, only people born into certain aristocratic bloodlines are considered members of the upper class
- British mass media hardly portray upper class in the critical light
- nor do they often draw any serious attention to inequalities in wealth
- Consumer items
- luxury cars
- costly holiday sports
- fashion accessories
- that only the wealthy can afford.
- Hierarchy and wealth
- Middle class
- educated and successful
- being able to cope with problems
- middle-class are over-represented on Tv dramas and situation comedies
- Represnations fit in with he hegemonic ideology of the dominant class
- anxious about the decline of moral standards
- proud of their British identity and heritage
- Feel threatened by alien influences such as the Euro, asylum seekers and terrorism
- Dominate positions of authority
- educated and successful
- Working class
- Generally labelled as a problem
- Welfare cheats
- Drug addicts
- Criminals
- Groups
- E.g. skinheads
- often the subject of moral panic
- Issues
- poverty
- unemployment
- single - parent families
- Suggests that personal inadequacy is the main cause of these social problems
- Rather than government policies or poor business practices
- Context
- trouble
- undesirable welface scroungers
- unable to cope with their delinquent children
- not interestedin important issues
- care about celebrity gossip and lifestyle and sport
- Newman (2006)
- working class often depicated in a very non-positive light
- Dumb buffoons
- e.g Homer Simpson
- Immature machos
- e.g. Phil Mirchel
- Dumb buffoons
- working class often depicated in a very non-positive light
- Generally labelled as a problem
- Poverty and underclass
- low-paying wage jobs with vert little economic security
- Working class
- sometimes separated into those who are employed but lacking financial security
- an underclass
- who are long term unemployed and/or homeless, especially those receiving welfare from the state
- Live
- decaying , crime ridden areas
- urban areas
- low-quality civil services provided
- Poverty
- rarely explored across the news, documentaries or drama (McKendrick et al 2008)
- Negative represenation
- labelling the "chavs"
- suggesting that the poor are undeserving of sympathy
- labelling the "chavs"
- Monary
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