Evidence of Growing Social Class Equality Flashcards

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Average income increase between 1979 and 1999

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36% increase between 1979 and 1999

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What now protects people from low pay?

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Minimum and now the living wage

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3
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What has increased (income)?

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Share ownership and car ownership

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Which % of people now own their own homes?

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70%

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What is the difference between what the top 1% earned in 1911 vs now?

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In 1911 they owned 69% wealth, now own 17%

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What measures have increased equality in education?

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Equal opportunity government funding (eg university grants)

Charities such as the Sutton Trust

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What does Saunders (New Right) say about education opportunities?

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Equal opportunity measures mean class is losing its significance, achievement or failure now has more to do with effort and ability than income

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What do Pakulski and Waters say?

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Class is dead, consumption is more important

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Which % of the population are upper class?

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1%

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10
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What has created downward social mobility?

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Inheritance taxes

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What now exists between social class groups?

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A blurring of boundaries

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What does Roberts say

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Weberian - middle class is fragmented

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What does Zweig say?

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Marxist view - embourgoisement - the working class is becoming more like the middle class (convergence)

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What does Braverman say

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Marxist view - proletarianisation - lower m/c are more like w/c (giving the uc more power)

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What does Hall say about social class?

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It is no longer a ‘master identity’ - ethnicity more important

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What did Bradley find

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Polarization between the rich and poor - evaluates growing social class equality

17
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What did Scott identify?

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A unified upper class - evaluates growing social class equality - they practised social closure and controlled ‘power blocs’

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What did Saunders say about the upper class

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New Right view - the upper class has been eroded

19
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Which % of the workforce are now middle class?

20
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What does Savage say about the middle class?

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It has fragmented into 5 sections:

professionals; managers; self employed; routine white collar; new technology

21
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Which % of the workforce are now working class?

22
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What did Zweig say has caused the reduction in the working class?

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Embourgeoisement

23
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What did Roberts find?

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Traditional working class identity is in decline

24
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What did Savage suggest?

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Although the working class may not identify as working class, inequality based on class is now MORE important

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Which theorist identified a deviant underclass?
Murray- created by welfare dependency
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What did Morris find about the underclass?
There was no evidence of them having distinct values, wanted to work
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What did Field suggest caused the underclass?
Benefits are too low and cause marginalization
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What are some structural explanations of the underclass?
Field - benefits being too low causing marginalization | Guy Standing - precariat (Barron and Norris)
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What do Marxists say about the underclass?
Not a distinct group, just the most exploited working class
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What is a Weberian view of the underclass?
Rex and Tomlinson - underclass lack status and party
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What do Functionalists think of the underclass?
Davis and Moore - poverty is actually functional