Murray - Critical view of the u/c
- Lazy, workshy - 'new rabble'
- Welfare system creates a dependency.
- Underclass chose welfare over work.
- Young women see single parent hood as normal life course.
- Young men repeat pattern of absent, jobless fathers.
- Poor male role model contribute to juvenile crime rates.
X - <span style="font-size: 120%;">Murray 'blames the victim' and takes no account of social exclusion.
X - Dean and Taylor-Gooby argue that the underclass share the same values as everyone else in society and are not distinct group in that sense.
X - Saunders problems reinforced by economic situation - 'sooner or later the uemployed become unemployable'.</span>
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