studies Flashcards
(26 cards)
Roberts
Pay doesn't correspond with labour shortages. Upper/middle class fix their own salaries and supplement them.
Gini Coefficiant
inequality between 0(equal) and 1.
UK in 2012-3 was 0.332
High Pay Centre (2012)
The total pay of chief executives of the 100 largest companies on the London Stock Exchange had risen by 49 per cent during the previous year, compared with average increases of less than 3 per cent for their employees
Bordieu
Cultural capital
GUMG
The BBC coverage of the miner’s strike favoured mine owners
Davis and Moore
Social stratification allocates the right people to functionally unique and independent jobs, and ensures these jobs are done to a high standard.
Willis
Learning to labour
Engles
Exploiter-exploited relationship between classes is translated into household relationship between men and women.
Mac an Ghail
‘Real Englishmen’ felt it was their responsibility to guard culture and felt themselves superior
Goldthorpe and Heath
Society in 3 groups
Saunders
Large inequality means more competition, means more economic growth
Murray
Welfare Benefits mean dependancy, which leads to Social Problems.
Single mums are the cause of crime etc.
Gramsci
Marxist theory still relevant, but a revolution won’t happen as there are more than two classes
Karl Marx
Proletariet masses exploited by the Bourgeoise, who own the means of production. Revolution.
Max Weber
There are four classes.
Class, status and party make inequality.
Parsons
Social class= shared values
Reiner
Class represented as a meritocracy
Price
Poverty porn
Class and politics
54% went to Russel group uni
Only 10% had no degree
24% Oxbridge
Class and Health
working class more likely to smoke, lower classes have more mental disorders
Class and housing
lower supply, higher demand
House prices increased by 6.9% a year since 1980
Bordieu and Passeron
Schools are middle class institutions run by the middle class, working class and ethnic minority children may lack knowledge of the values, ways if interacting etc. that middle class children have so do not have the same chances to succeed
Marmot
studied civil servants and found low control in the workplace led to stress and illness (coronary tests e.g. blood pressure). Those with low control are those lower down the hierarchy
Bottero
strong socio-economic link to almost all patterns of disease and ill health. Poorer areas and jobs also have more hazards.
