Changing/pos Representations Of MC

Question 1

Strinati

Answer 1

-‘postmodernists think that we have a choice over what types of media that we consume.
- means that representations of social classes are changing because people don’t have access to traditional representations of class groups unless they wish to because the media market is saturated and consumed with many different types of representations
Eg. Have a wide range of streaming services we can choose eg. Netflix

Question 2

Draper

Answer 2

• suggest the formation of the new middle class makes the middle-class as a whole very diverse.
• means that at each end of the spectrum of middle-class, people differ in lifestyle, occupation and attitudes. At one extreme end there is the “super rich elite model class“ whereas at the other end is a whole
  range of “low-level routine” occupations defined as middle-class.
• These two separate sections of the middle class are
  compared in difference like a “dish of herrings and strawberries”
  Eg. ‘Miranda’ who is middle class but has average income and a 1 bedroom flat, compared with ‘Motherland’, who are still claimed as middle class, but are wealthy and living in central london