working class disadvantage

Question 1

mac and ghail

Answer 1

workplace, deindustrialisation, crisis of masculinity as working class men face unemployment.

Question 2

willis (work)

Answer 2

workplace, working class boys see their future as working basic manual labour jobs like their fathers.

Question 3

mckenzie

Answer 3

workplace, made redundant from steel works jobs, felt a loss of identity from communities and their role of a breadwinner.

Question 4

Bourdieu

Answer 4

education, based towards a culture of the dominant class, devalues skills of working class through hidden curriculum.

Question 5

willis (education)

Answer 5

lads negatively labelled because they didn’t see the value of education in relation to their future in manual labour jobs.

Question 6

jackson

Answer 6

education, ladettes adopt anti school culture and assertive femininity, smoking, swearing, arguing. Negatively labelled by teachers.

Question 7

price

Answer 7

media, poverty porn (benefit street) expoiting working class for the purpose of education for upper classes, encourages the working class being exploited.

Question 8

jones

Answer 8

media, chavtainment to portray a negative view of working class. “from salt of the earth, to scum of the earth”

Question 9

milliband

Answer 9

media, the new opium to the people, distracts them from real issues like poverty and zero hour contracts.

Question 10

walmsley

Answer 10

crime, 41% of prisoners are from the lowest social classes, but only cover 19% of the overall population.

Question 11

coles

Answer 11

crime, if you are poor, you are more likely to commit crime.

Question 12

harding

Answer 12

crime, working class youths in london face deprivation and turn to crime for income. Street casino as the gamble their lives away and street capital is gained.