Evidence Of Working Class Disadvantage

Question 1

What is the evidence of working class disadvantage in the workplace?

Answer 1

1. The inequality briefing
2. Mac an Ghail
3. Willis

Question 2

What did the inequality briefing say?

Answer 2

• the richest 20% of the population own 60% of the nation’s wealth

Question 3

What did Mac and Ghaill say?

Answer 3

• deindustrialisation led to crisis of masculinity amongst working class males

Question 4

What did Willis say?

Answer 4

• working class males see their futures as working in basic manual labour jobs like their fathers and don’t aspire for more

Question 5

What is the evidence of working class disadvantage in education?

Answer 5

1. Bourdieu
2. Jackson
3. The department for education

Question 6

What did Bourdieu say?

Answer 6

• education system is biased towards culture of dominant classes and devalues knowledge and skills of the working class through the hidden curriculum

Question 7

What did Jackson say?

Answer 7

• working class Ladettes are generally working class and adopt anti school attitudes and adopt assertive femininity around arguing with teachers where they are negatively labelled by their teachers as a result

Question 8

What did the department for education say?

Answer 8

• those eligible for free school meals who got anything above a grade 5 (34.4%)
• those not eligible for free school meals who got anything above a grade 5 (48.3%)

Question 9

What are the examples of the working class disadvantage in the media?

Answer 9

1. Price
2. Jones
3. Milliband

Question 10

What are the examples of the working class disadvantage in the media?

Answer 10

1. Price
2. Jones
3. Milliband

Question 11

What did price say?

Answer 11

• poverty porn to describe programmes such as benefit street where underclass are exploited for entertainment

Question 12

What did jones say?

Answer 12

• chavtainment to describe shows such as little Britain that negatively portray working class as aggressive and lazy

Question 13

What did Milliband say?

Answer 13

• states that the media is the new opium of the people and distracts the working class from exploitation

Question 14

What are the examples of working class disadvantage in relation to crime?

Answer 14

1. Walmsley et al
2. Coles
3. Harding

Question 15

What did Walmsley et al say?

Answer 15

• 41% of prisoners are from the lowest social classes but only 19% of the overall population

Question 16

What did Cole’s say?

Answer 16

• if you are poor you are more likely to commit crime

Question 17

What did Harding say?

Answer 17

• street casino gang life, street capital gains status with the more street behaviours they demonstrate