SOCIAL CLASS IDENTITY
- Created by: ElishaHolt12
- Created on: 10-04-19 16:34
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- IDENTITY
- NATIONALITY
- SOCIAL CLASS
- strongly built with employment + workplace
- thus based on= occupation + income
- x3 main social class groups (UK): UPPER, MIDDLE + LOWER
- UPPER
- defined= wealth/key value= power
- x2 subcultural groups within: traditional upper class + super rich (both make up 7% of UK society)
- Traditional Upper Class: money made by manufacturing/inherited wealth/ ascribed status
- The Super Rich: worked hard to achieve status (meritocracy)/media focus on them
- MACKINTOSH + MOONEY: "social closure"/ separate themselves from rest of society/seen as invisible
- BORDIEU: uc hold power to define knowledge + skills, thus can ensure their kids have the valued ones= place them in best condition to acquire them; eg. Eton College, Windsor
- MIDDLE
- defined= carrying out non-manual work
- FOX: mc so broad= split into upper middle, middle middle + lower middle
- LIGHT: often aspirational + value higher education/ they stand by the 'notion of deterred gratification'- importance of studying and saving when setting out career path
- MARSHALL: most people tend to see themselves as wc, despite lifestyle
- BORDIEU: cultural, economic, social + human capital
- SAVAGE: noticed cultural differences between classes (eg. professionals more likely to have interest in art than manager)// The former- highly individualistic + focuses on improving living standards/ The Latter: more community orientated
- BRAVERMAN: white-collar workers (office/ managerial) no longer subscribe to mc
- defined= carrying out non-manual work
- LOWER
- SKEGGS: wc women felt ashamed because of way people judge their class + so made efforts to be seen as 'respectable"
- skilled, unskilled + semi-skilled workers
- manual workers= subscribed to proletarian traditionalist identity (characteristics): live in tight0knit communities, see society 'them' and 'us', importance of extended fam, likely found in rented properties (council housing), traditional gender roles, immediate gratification (no savings)
- CHARLES MURRAY: 'underclass'= overgenerous welare payments encourage laziness (no responisibility as looked after by state)
- UPPER
- OFFE: We're able to create own identity, despite social class
- strongly built with employment + workplace
- AGE
- DISABILITY
- ETHNICITY
- GENDER
- SEXUALITY
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