Social Class Identities
- Created by: Kyle Ford
- Created on: 30-10-17 19:31
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- Social Class Identities
- Upper Class
- Traditionally - those with inherited wealth (often land)
- MAKINTOSH AND MOONEY
- Key feature is their invisibility
- Operate social closure - live separate to society
- May send children to boarding schools - attend exclusive clubs e.g polo hunting
- 'Super rich' now taking over - wealth now on achievement rather than ascribed status
- May send children to boarding schools - attend exclusive clubs e.g polo hunting
- Operate social closure - live separate to society
- Key feature is their invisibility
- Middle Class
- Now seen as majority - Blair 'We are all MC now'
- Traditionally - those with professional/managerial careers
- Likely to have been university educated and own homes
- Access to home ownership - university education - spread
- More self employed - fewer people in manual jobs or trades
- Access to home ownership - university education - spread
- Likely to have been university educated and own homes
- Working Class
- Used to form majority of population - traditionally manual/trade workers
- Romanticised - hard working - straight talking - salt of the earth
- Many who are in MC due to education, career or income still claim as a part of their identity
- Romanticised - hard working - straight talking - salt of the earth
- HUTTON
- Decline in trade union memberships and manufacturing sector - due to dispersal of WC communities
- WC identity - eroded
- Decline in trade union memberships and manufacturing sector - due to dispersal of WC communities
- Used to form majority of population - traditionally manual/trade workers
- Under Class
- Negative way to describe those who rely on benefits
- Blamed for own position through choices they have made
- MURRAY
- Generous benefits - encourage people to develop culture of norms and values
- Do not take responsibility for own actions - expect to be looked after by the state
- Generous benefits - encourage people to develop culture of norms and values
- Often negatively portrayed in media - Shameless / Jeremy Kyle
- Negative way to describe those who rely on benefits
- Upper Class
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