Working Class Disadvantage Flashcards
Mac and Ghail - workplace
States that DEINDUSTRIALISATION has lead to a crisis of masculinity among working class males - they face unemployment
Willis - workplace
Working class males see their futures as working in basic manual labour jobs like their fathers therefore they don’t aspire anymore
McKenzie - workplace
once they’d been made redundant from their steel work jobs the men in his study felt a loss of identity from their tight knit communities- loss of the role as breadwinner
Helsper - media
Government plans to make public services digital by default meaning that these individuals will be unable to access them - children from poorer homes - digital divide
Jones - Media
Discusses the use of the word chav - ways of describing working class structure - Chavtainmnet - shows them in a negative way
Milliband - media
Media is the new opium of the people - distracts us as the working class masses from real social issues faces in a capability’s society - inequality is inevitable , justifiable and effective for the ruling class
Bourdieu - education
Education system is biased towards the culture of the dominant classes and it devalues the knowledge as skills of the working class through the hidden curriculum
Jackson - education
Working class ladettes adopt anti - school attitudes- assertive feminist around smoking - negatively labelled
Lacey - Education
Setting students meant that those from deprived backgrounds were placed in lower sets
Walmsly et al - crime
41% of prisoners are from the lowest social class but only 19% of the overall population
Coles - crime
Found that if you are poor you are more likely to commit crime
Jacobson et al - crime
Found that children and young people in custody have couples backgrounds - 3/4 have absent fathers , 1/2 live in deprived households , 1/2 had runaway
