C1 SA - Culture & Identity - Topic 8, Social class identity - The upper class Flashcards
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Groups that make up the upper class
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Landowning aristocrats, large landowners
Entrepreneurs, owning or running a business
Jet set, made money from sport.
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Difference between ‘super rich’ and ‘upper class’
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Super rich is based more on achievement whereas upper class is based more ascribed (inherited) status.
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What does social closure mean?
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Their education, leisure time and daily lives are separated from and partially invisible to the rest of the population.
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Education
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Top public schools - prestigious universities, making valuable social contacts, positions of power
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Family, marriage and kinship
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Upper class people intermarry, exclusive lifestyle.
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Social and leisure activities
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Exclusive social events, provide sense of real class. Events; hunting, shooting, tennis and horse racing Chris Rojek (2000) - 3 richest men in the world lives revolve around their work
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Upper class values
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Tradition, authority, breeding and background
