Sociology
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- Social class and identity
- Middle Class
- Majority of the population
- Upper middles, middle middles and lower middles (Fox 2004)
- self employed
- Very diverse
- Own their own homes
- University educated
- Majority of the population
- Mackintosh and Mooney (2004)
- The key feature of the upper class is their invisibility
- They operate on social closure
- Education, leisure time and daily lives are separate
- Children will go to private school and take part in leisure activites
- Hunting polo and opera
- status comes from individuals recognition of socio-economic position relative to theirs
- There is a new super rich which is achieved rather than ascribed
- seen as more significant
- There is a new super rich which is achieved rather than ascribed
- Working class
- Manual workers and those with trades
- Hutton 1995- decline in trade union membership.
- Eroded working class identity
- Hard working, straight talking.
- Underclass
- People on benefits are blamed for the choices they have made
- Murray 1984
- School age raised to stop NEET children
- Marxists-focus on class
- Postmodernists-Reject class
- Middle Class
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