Social Class

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What is Social Class?
A system of stratification which places people in different positions in society.
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Indicators of Social Class
Opportunities, Appearance, Attitudes, Jobs, Education, Health, Luxury
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Theoretical Approach
Different ideas on what classes exist - Marxists believe there is only two
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Descriptive Approach
Ranking into a hierarchy based around a number of indicators - Registrar Generals Scale, NSSEC
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SCOTT
"Old Boy Network" - Lifelong elites and their legacies have contacts to create better opportunities and advance quicker
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KENWAY
Private education boosts self esteem as they feel more worthy than working class girls
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KING AND RAYNOR
Child Centeredness reinforces attitudes about the importance of educational success
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BOURDIEU (Capital)
Cultural/Social/Economic Capital benefitting the middle class
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BOURDIEU (Hidden Curriculum)
Socialises society into middle class values
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GOODWIN
"Yummy Mummies" strive to be better than peers through maternal capabilities, glamour and style as well as experiences of their children
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SAUNDERS
Conspicuous consumption is where media targets the middle class as they have the highest disposable income.
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WRIGHT
Contradictory class position - Exploited by the upper class, exploiting the working class
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WILLIS
Study of Working Class Lads, with an anti-school subculture due to strong hegemonic masculinity
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MAC AN GHAILL
Ethnographically studied "Macho Lads" in the process of deindustrialisation and lead to a crisis of masculinity.
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BOWLES AND GINTIS
Educations function is to transmit ruling class values disguised as common values - obedient and passive
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MERTENS AND D'HAENENS
Studied the digital divide and found that lower classes used the internet for entertainment
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MURRAY
Underclass is full of lazy, immoral, workshy individuals
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JORDAN
Disagrees with Murray, underclass people would love to get themsleves out of that position
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SKEGGS
Working class women had an instrumental attitude to work as their jobs didn't influence their identities.
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Opportunities, Appearance, Attitudes, Jobs, Education, Health, Luxury

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Indicators of Social Class

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Different ideas on what classes exist - Marxists believe there is only two

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Card 4

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Ranking into a hierarchy based around a number of indicators - Registrar Generals Scale, NSSEC

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Card 5

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"Old Boy Network" - Lifelong elites and their legacies have contacts to create better opportunities and advance quicker

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