Social Class 0.0 / 5 ? SociologySocial ClassA2/A-levelNone Created by: HLocatelliCreated on: 28-04-19 12:29 What is Social Class? A system of stratification which places people in different positions in society. 1 of 19 Indicators of Social Class Opportunities, Appearance, Attitudes, Jobs, Education, Health, Luxury 2 of 19 Theoretical Approach Different ideas on what classes exist - Marxists believe there is only two 3 of 19 Descriptive Approach Ranking into a hierarchy based around a number of indicators - Registrar Generals Scale, NSSEC 4 of 19 SCOTT "Old Boy Network" - Lifelong elites and their legacies have contacts to create better opportunities and advance quicker 5 of 19 KENWAY Private education boosts self esteem as they feel more worthy than working class girls 6 of 19 KING AND RAYNOR Child Centeredness reinforces attitudes about the importance of educational success 7 of 19 BOURDIEU (Capital) Cultural/Social/Economic Capital benefitting the middle class 8 of 19 BOURDIEU (Hidden Curriculum) Socialises society into middle class values 9 of 19 GOODWIN "Yummy Mummies" strive to be better than peers through maternal capabilities, glamour and style as well as experiences of their children 10 of 19 SAUNDERS Conspicuous consumption is where media targets the middle class as they have the highest disposable income. 11 of 19 WRIGHT Contradictory class position - Exploited by the upper class, exploiting the working class 12 of 19 WILLIS Study of Working Class Lads, with an anti-school subculture due to strong hegemonic masculinity 13 of 19 MAC AN GHAILL Ethnographically studied "Macho Lads" in the process of deindustrialisation and lead to a crisis of masculinity. 14 of 19 BOWLES AND GINTIS Educations function is to transmit ruling class values disguised as common values - obedient and passive 15 of 19 MERTENS AND D'HAENENS Studied the digital divide and found that lower classes used the internet for entertainment 16 of 19 MURRAY Underclass is full of lazy, immoral, workshy individuals 17 of 19 JORDAN Disagrees with Murray, underclass people would love to get themsleves out of that position 18 of 19 SKEGGS Working class women had an instrumental attitude to work as their jobs didn't influence their identities. 19 of 19
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