Social class Identities

Question 1

Upper class identities

Answer 1

Scott
Macintosh and Mooney
Kenway

Question 2

Middle class identities

Answer 2

Bourdieu
Goodwin
Saunders
Wright

Question 3

working class identities

Answer 3

Willis
Mac an Ghail
Metens and D’Haenens /Helsper

Question 4

Underclass identities

Answer 4

Murray

evaluation - Jordan

Question 5

Changing

Answer 5

Pakulski and waters
Offe
Skeggs

Question 6

Scott

Answer 6

Upperclass 
Upper class - Social closure, intermarriage, high culture, old boy network

Question 7

Macintosh and Mooney

Answer 7

them as less valuableUpperclass
Upper class - Status and class is based on occupation

Us and them
value themselves more than people in other classes see

Question 8

Kenway

Answer 8

Upperclass
Privately educated school girls - Exclude others by devaluing comprehensive student

Question 9

Bourdieu

Answer 9

Middleclass 
Hidden curriculum rewards social, cultural and economic capital

middle class vaules reunforce muddle class idenities

Question 10

Goodwin

Answer 10

Middleclass
Middle class ‘yummy mummies’ - Gain status through inclusion / status symbols

no longer hegemonic female but now rely on materal capitlties

Question 11

Saunders

Answer 11

Middleclass
Middle class - High disposable income / ‘conspicuous consumption’

Question 12

Wright

Answer 12

Middleclass 
 Middle class in a ‘contradictory class position’ - Exploited by upper class. Exploit working class

Question 13

Willis

Answer 13

working class 
 Working class ‘lads’ - Fatalistic about futures - Unskilled manual labour work

Question 14

Mac an Ghail

Answer 14

working class

Deindustrialisation has caused high unemployment and a ‘crisis of masculinity’ for working class males

Question 15

Mertens and D’haenens /helsper

Answer 15

Studied the digital divide in class and the internet. Those from a lower social classes used the internet less (81% were users as opposed to 94% of middle class people) lower social classes were seen to use it as for entertainment purposes where as middle class people used it for educational and to boost their knowleagesd purposes.

Question 16

Murray

Answer 16

Underclass
Claims that the underclass are lazy, workshy,immoral,criminal and depentant on benefits. He suggests ita there own fault they are in this position because they have a culture based on idleness,failure and criminality.

Question 17

Jordan

Answer 17

underclass
Disagree with murrays and says that the underclass have the same values and attitudes as everyone else in society and most of them would love to work if they had the chance. He suggest that they feel a sense of shame that they can not provide for their families.

Underclass is made up of elderly, disabled, long-term sick etc

Question 18

Pakulski and waters

Answer 18

changing

We are now defined by what we buy, not what we do with regards to occupation

Question 19

Offe

Answer 19

Changing
Fewer and Fewer individuals share a common, unifying experience of full time work- the days when people had a job for life have gone

Question 20

Skeggs

Answer 20

changing 
Found that working class woman had instrumental attitudes to work - Worked to buy 

The new working class see society as meritocractic as they believe all individuals have an equal chance of success and can experience social mobility.