L2: Modern Britain

Question 1

What are advantages of anthropologists working at home for Nigel Rapport? (3)

Answer 1

Anthropological research in Britain can be central to the discipline (1)

Anything of interest can be studied in Britain (1)

Working in own language can achieve more detailed, subtler and more insightful work (3)

Question 2

What are some limitations of working at home? (3)

Answer 2

We may assume that people are more similar to us than they really are (1)

Common culure allows for anthropologists to find informants’ ideas wrong (1)

Britian contains multitudes and diffferent “ways of life” (1)

Question 3

Why is class such a defining feature of British social identity? (1)

What are some examples? (6)

Answer 3

Class is bound up in cultural aspects (1)

Education (1)
Place of residence (1)
Lifestyle (1)
Taste (1)
Manner of speech (1)
Dress (1)

Question 4

What does James Littlejohn (1963) believe class is for its members? (1)

Answer 4

“Class is…for its members, one of the major horizons of all social ecperience, an area within most experience is defined” (1)