Class Identity

Question 1

Bourdieu

Answer 1

Class fractions are determined by varying degrees
-cultural
-economic
-social

Question 2

Rose Crompton

Answer 2

Class reproduction, mostly because middle class parents have social capital and lower-class parents do not.

Question 3

Fox

Answer 3

Tony Blair famously said, “we are now all middle class now”, fox argues that the decrease in manufacturing jobs has led to middle class being segmented

Question 4

Pakulski and waters

Answer 4

Cultural differences not class, and that we all struggle with same global problems regardless, “climate change” beck

Question 5

Saunders

Answer 5

What we buy not class, and underclass beliefs on not working to obtain jobs

Question 6

Macintosh and Mooney

Answer 6

Key to upper class is invisibility

Question 7

Hutton

Answer 7

Erosion of working-class identities

Question 8

Skeggs

Answer 8

Study on class, that working class women were self-conscious on way they dressed etc… viewed by upper classes

Question 9

Conford And Robins

Answer 9

The globalisation has allowed upper classes to control behaviour in more subtle ways

Question 10

Charles Murray

Answer 10

Underclass exists because of welfare state

Question 11

Braverman

Answer 11

De-skilling of middle class jobs has led to paying less

Question 12

Offe

Answer 12

Able to create identities regardless of social class because work experiences are not unifying