Social class and identity
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- Social class and identity
- Definition
- The sense of identity and status that comes from individuals recognition of socio-economic position relative to theirs.
- It generally relates to the type of work someone does.
- The sense of identity and status that comes from individuals recognition of socio-economic position relative to theirs.
- Upper class
- Mackintosh and Mooney (2004)
- Key feature is their invisibility.
- They operate 'Social Closure'
- Education, leisure time and daily lives are separated and partially invisible from the rest of the population
- The idea that wealth is inherited seems to be weakening.
- New 'super rich' which is achieved rather than ascribed
- More significant in contemporary society.
- New 'super rich' which is achieved rather than ascribed
- Mackintosh and Mooney (2004)
- Middle class
- Majority of the population
- Professional of managerial careers
- Self-employed
- Fox (2004)
- Upper middles, middle middles and lower middles.
- Big difference between teachers and nurses compared to lawyers and bankers
- Not everyone in the middle class will share a common experience or identity.
- Upper middles, middle middles and lower middles.
- Hutton (1995)
- Decline in trade union membership and the manufacturing sector
- Manual workers and those with trade.
- Hard working, straight talking, 'salt of the earth' identity
- Skeggs (1997) working class women.
- Sense of humiliation by others
- Made a strenuous effort to show they were respectable
- Dress
- Leisure persuits.
- Home decor
- Skeggs (1997) working class women.
- Under class
- Controversial term used by conflicting theories
- Used to describe people on benefits
- They are blamed for the choices they have made.
- Used to describe people on benefits
- Highlights
- Social exclusion experienced by those at the bottom of society.
- Murray (1984)
- over generous benefits
- Encourages people to not take responisility for their own actions
- As the state will look after them.
- Encourages people to not take responisility for their own actions
- Policy targeted NEET'S
- Raised school leaving
- over generous benefits
- Controversial term used by conflicting theories
- Definition
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