Class Identity Flashcards
(17 cards)
Reay
Middle class mothers have time to influence childs schooling
Carter and Coleman
W/C girls 10x more likely to become teen mothers
Archer
Symbolic capital - gain status from peers
Skeggs
W/C are ritually humiliated in the media - leads to negative labelling from rest of society
Jones
W/C portrayed as “Thick, violent and criminals”
Savage
Strong link between the M/C and doctors
Bourdieu
M/C children easily fit into uni life, W/C find it daunting - few other W/C children
Willis
W/C boys look forward to leaving school and getting a manual job
Harris - Qualifications not valued
Bourdieu
Class heavily influences identity
Habitus is ingrained and hard to change (Economic, Cultural and Social capital)
Giddens
Class doesn’t impact identity
Reflexivity over habitus - Pick from a wide range of identities
Paulski and Waters
Class doesn’t impact identity
Death of class as class identities have fragmented. Due to globalisation
(Postmodernist)
Clarke and Saunders
Class doesn’t impact identity
Consumer Culture - indiviuals can ‘pick and mix’ there lifestyle as they can can use loans an credit cards
Goldthorpe
Class identity has changed
New working class with new values, Embourgouisement
(Functionalist)
Savage
Class identities have fragemented, no one homogenous class identity (Weberian)
Working class features
Tight community, low paid no qualification jobs
Middle class features
Value education, have managerial jobs that require qualification
Upper class features
Aristocracy, often land owners who don’t work.
