Class Identity

Question 1

Marshall et al

Answer 1

• 65% of people thought they belong to a particular social class.
• 90% of people could place themselves into a class if prompted.
  -75% thought people are born into a social class and that it is hard to move from one class to another.

Question 2

Savage

Answer 2

• Most people in Britian still believe that a class system exists.
• Class identities are generally weak.

Question 3

Bourdieu

Answer 3

The power of the ruling class ensures their children have an unfair advantage within society.

Question 4

Mackintosh and Mooney

Answer 4

• The upper class are invisible and create social closure.
• The upper class are waning in numbers, replaced by the self-achieved super rich.

Question 5

Tony Blair

Answer 5

The middle class has divided into 3 different sub-classes, upper middle, middle middle and lower middle.

Question 6

Skeggs

Answer 6

Working class women feel judged and dismissed because of their working class background.

Question 7

Murray

Answer 7

Supports idea of underclass who are people who encourage others to stay at the bottom of society due to overly generous government benefits.

Question 8

Hutton

Answer 8

Working class identity eroded due to dispersal of working class community and manufacturing sector.

Question 9

Pakulski and Waters

Answer 9

We are now defined by what we buy, not what we do.

Question 10

Offe

Answer 10

Fewer individuals share a common experience of full time work. Regardless of social class, qualifications or job we now are able to create our own identities.