Class

Question 1

Equality

Answer 1

theory of justice, equal right to life + labour = property, maintained through a social contract enforced by the state

Question 2

Feudalism

Answer 2

Social rank and status (9-15th century) land = wealth, power of patronage

Question 3

Weber

Answer 3

theory of stratification: class, status and power as ideal types based on wealth, prestige and power

Question 4

Social Mobility

Answer 4

movement of individuals, families, households within social strata in society

Question 5

Goldthorpe

Answer 5

(2016) Social Class Mobility in Modern Britain- trends of upward social mobility in post war years (UK) ‘the Golden Age’ now being reversed

Question 6

Intersectionality

Answer 6

Forms of identity, race, gender, sexual orientation and class interconnect as forms of oppression, can be avoided through political alliances

Question 7

Crenshaw, Kimerle

Answer 7

(1993) Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, identity politics and Violence against women of colour

Question 8

Wilson and Pickett

Answer 8

(2010) The Spirit Level: why equality is better for everyone: problems such as health, mental illness, drug addiction is worse with higher levels of inequality

Question 9

Social Pollutant

Answer 9

Inequality damages the social fabric of the whole society

Question 10

The Great British Class Survey by Savage, M et al

Answer 10

(2013) A New Model of Social Class?

Question 11

GBCS

Answer 11

16000 questionnaires, 1000 face to face and national representative survey: 7 classes= elite, established middle class, technical middle class, new affluent worker, traditional working class, emergent service workers, precariat

Question 12

Dorling, D

Answer 12

(2014) Thinking about class- classes are the result of industrialisation, not simply occupations but middle-class identities- GBCS is opaque but illustrates how classes may be changing

Question 13

Luxemburg, R

Answer 13

(1990) Reform or Revolution- argues for the revolutionary transformation of the social relations of production for a new form of communist society

Question 14

The Social Factory

Answer 14

Concept developed by Italian autonomist Marxism in the 1960s to help analyse how capitalist social relations had expanded outside the sphere of production to that of society as a whole

Question 15

Karl Marx Grundrisse

Answer 15

(1851-61) Marx didn’t argue for equality, he argued for the development of social individuals

Question 16

Weeks, K

Answer 16

(2011) The Problem of Work- Marxism, Feminism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries

Question 17

Multidimensional stratification

Answer 17

cultural/ social/ economic capital: cultural class analysis and feminism, avoids culture, including extended social networks