Class Identity

Question 1

how is class identity shown through the family

Answer 1

Read – middle class mothers are more able to influence their child’s schooling than working class mothers.

Question 2

how is class identity shown through mass media

Answer 2

Glennon and butch – working class families are underrepresented and middle-class families are over represented, working class families that are shown are either trying to move upwards or shown to be unintelligent

Question 3

how is class identity shown through peer groups

Answer 3

Mac an-Ghail – school masculinities were linked to class

Clarke – studied group of skinheads portraying their working-class identity was an important aspect of their subculture

Question 4

how is class identity shown through education

Answer 4

Mac an-Ghail – school masculinities were linked to class

Willis – working class boys were fatalistic in accepting school failure as inevitable and so developed anti-educational coping strategies

Question 5

how is class identity shown through religion

Answer 5

Bruce – working class mothers are too busy trying to provide food from their children to attend religious services and when they are trying to take a break, they are more likely to go to the discotheques than church

Question 6

how is class identity shown is the workplace

Answer 6

Savage – doctors are normally from middle-class backgrounds and in working class areas people usually have more practical occupations.

Devine 50 unstructured interviews with doctors and teachers most of the samples didn’t refer to the concept of class in responses.

Question 7

What is class identity

Answer 7

the class that someone identifies as

Question 8

what are the types of class

Answer 8

• under class
• working class
• middle class
• upper class
• super rich