Sc Identity Change -postmodern

Question 1

Pakulski and waters

Answer 1

• shift from production to consumption
• we are now defined by what we buy not what we do (death of class)

Question 2

Offe

Answer 2

• fewer individuals share common unifying experience of full time work, no longer have a job for life
• classes have blended in and there are no ways to differentiate between them in our daily lives

Question 3

Skeggs

Answer 3

• working class women had instrumental attitudes to work
• new working class saw capitalism as effective in raising living standards and see society as meritocratic and that everyone can achieve social mobility
• believe in individualism and put family first before community