Social Class Inequalities

Question 1

How many ways are there to define social class?

Answer 1

There are six ways to define social class

Question 2

What is the Marxist view definition?

Answer 2

There are two classes the ruling class and the working class, defined by who owns the means of production

Question 3

What is the Manual and Non Manual definition?

Answer 3

There are three social class, upper,middle and lower, divided by manual labor, the working class are manual laborers where as the middle class don’t perform manual labour

Question 4

What is the Hope-Goldthorpe definition?

Answer 4

The Hope-Goldthorpe 1980 scale recognizes 3 main social classes( service,working and intermediate) but these are further sub-categorized into 7 occupational classes

Question 5

What is Charles Murray’s definition?

Answer 5

Believes there are four social classes to the emerging underclass, a class dependent upon government benefits

Question 6

What is the NS-SEC scale?

Answer 6

Used by the government , built off the ONS it measures social positioning by 8 social classes

Question 7

What is the occupational definition?

Answer 7

Social class is based on occupations that peoples class is based upon their income, status and power

Question 8

What is the subjective social class definition?

Answer 8

Subjective social class means which social class people see themselves as belonging too

Question 9

What is the Great British Class Survey?

Answer 9

Measures social class by economic, social and cultural capital aspects, uses Bordeaux’s ideas of capital to provide with seven social class