Lesson 8 - Social Class - Functionalism

Question 1

What does Hoggart(1957) and Young & Willmott(1957) look at

Answer 1

Work - Men work in heavy industries (physically demanding)
Women expected to become full-time housewives but financial hardship sometimes force them into workforce

Class Consciousness - Traditional workers had strong sense of social solidarity
Adopted proletarian views gave their loyalties to trade unions

Respectability - Important divide within working class

Community - Traditional WC lived in close knit communities, connections with locality, built up large circle of friends