Class

Question 1

Giddens and Diamond

Answer 1

-Class does not matter
-UK is meritocratic
-Reject idea that there is overarching structure of inequality, social exclusion is a more accurate term

Question 2

Chapman

Answer 2

-Equality of opportunity usually undermined by economic and social structures.
-These are brought about my free market capitalism.
-Equality of opportunity is rendered redundant if there is no equality of outcome

Question 3

Savage

Answer 3

Counter to Giddens and Diamond

-Argues for the importance of Social Class Divisions as the concept of social exclusion and inclusion is “bland and inoffensive”

Question 4

Owen Jones

Answer 4

Demonisation of ‘chavs’
-Systematic destruction of WC has led to council estates with little job opportunities.

Question 5

Giddens

Answer 5

-Late modernist
-Society can be divided into the 3 classes based on ‘market capacity’
-acknowledges there are subdivisions within these

Question 6

Wright

Answer 6

-‘rescue’ the marxist framework in light of middle class
- Added the concept of ownership of economic resources
-10 new contradicting classes

Question 7

Bourdieu

Answer 7

-Marxist
-Positions of privilege are justified in society through means such as:
- Economic, Social and Cultural Capitol
-Symbolic capital can be things such as tastes and cultural preferences.