Social Class - Postmodernism

Question 1

pakulski and waters

Answer 1

• suggests that there has been a shift from production to consumption in defining of identities.
• We are now defined by what we buy, not what we do

Question 2

offe

Answer 2

• in todays society fewer individuals share a common unifying experience of full time work.
• The experience that used to share the culture of social classes
• These days when people have a job, we are all able to create our own identities regardless of the social class of our families and the particular level of qualifications or job we may have at any time

Question 3

skeggs

Answer 3

• working class women had instrumental attitudes to work, their jobs didn’t influence their identities
• new working class also saw capitalism as effective in raising their living standards and therefore they have no sense of class injustice
• see society as meritocratic as they believed all individuals have an equal chance of success and can experience social mobility
• The new working class look to role models in the media who were from working class backgrounds but have become successful.

Question 4

• suggests that there has been a shift from production to consumption in defining of identities.
• We are now defined by what we buy, not what we do

Answer 4

pakulski and waters

Question 5

• in todays society fewer individuals share a common unifying experience of full time work.
• The experience that used to share the culture of social classes
• These days when people have a job, we are all able to create our own identities regardless of the social class of our families and the particular level of qualifications or job we may have at any time

Answer 5

offe

Question 6

• working class women had instrumental attitudes to work, their jobs didn’t influence their identities
• new working class also saw capitalism as effective in raising their living standards and therefore they have no sense of class injustice
• see society as meritocratic as they believed all individuals have an equal chance of success and can experience social mobility
• The new working class look to role models in the media who were from working class backgrounds but have become successful.

Answer 6

skeggs