Identity - Social Class Flashcards
INTRO
Key difference between Marxists and postmodernists
Marxist - class is crucial and prominent
Postmodernist - class doesn’t exist anymore. Fragmenting
INTRO
MARXIST
key terms 4
- Proletariat
- Bourgiouse
- Class consciousness
- Ideological state apparatus
INTRO
MARXIST
Who came up with social, economic and cultural capital
Bourdieau
INTRO
POSTMODERNIST
Why are classes fragmenting?
2
1globalisation - international workers migrate to UK and change trad class structures
2. Consumer culture - identify through products they buy
-conspicuous consumption and pick n mix
INTRO
POSTMODERNIST
criticisms
Exaggerated
Can’t buy expensive things without the funds
TRADITIONAL WORKING CLASS
Identity
5
•strong sense of class identity
•trad gender roles
•family based - social capital
•Labour party
•immediate gratification
TRADITIONAL WORKING CLASS
Jobs
Manual unskilled labour (coal mining)
Immediate gratification
Deterred gratification
Meaning
Immediate gratification - spend money now
Deterred gratification - save money
NEW WORKING CLASS
Identity
4
•individualised - less community centred
•shared gender responsibility
•small disposable income
•social mobility achievable
NEW WORKING CLASS
Jobs
Skilled and self employed - electricians
DECLINE IN TRAD INC IN NEW WORKING CLASS
Why?
3
- Immigrants taking manual
- Improved education (up to 18 and for women)
- Social changes - no following parents
UNDERCLASS
New right - Murray
•dependency culture - welfare
•anti education, lazy, single parents
UNDERCLASS
Marxists
No one chooses to be poor
MIDDLECLASS
jobs
Doctors, solicitors.
Cultural capital
MIDDLE CLASS
Identity
3
- Meritocracy and social mobility
- Deferred gratification
- Educated
Why is middle and working class blurred
Job ≠ pay
CHANGES TO MIDDLE CLASS
New categorisations 3
- Professionals - doctors / teachers
- Intermediate - small business owner
- White collar - working drive
UPPER CLASS
Identity
•Social closure through private school
TRADITIONAL UPPER CLASS
Who does this include?
Monarchy - economic capital
Landowners
TRADITIONAL UPPER CLASS
Intermarriage meaning
Marrying people with same status to increase social capital
TRADITIONAL UPPER CLASS
What other networks are there that have same cultural values to improve social capital
Old boy networks
SUPER RICH
Identity 3
Economic capital
Conspicuous consumption
Networking
