middle class

Question 1

king and raynor

Answer 1

• parents socialise middle class identities by reinforcing attitudes and values about the importance of educational success through the use of role models.
• child centeredness is a distinctive feature of the middle class families.

Question 2

child centeredness

Answer 2

• king and raynor
• where the family has become more centrered in the needs of their children.
• Parents socialise middle class identities by reinforcing attitudes and values about the importance of educational success through positive and negative sanctions and rewards.

Question 3

Bourdieu

Answer 3

• education system can be seen to create and reinforce a middle class identity through the hidden curriculum which rewards the middle class.
• The school helps to socialise people into middle class identities through the use of role models, imitation, rewards, sanctions and the whole environment of the school being similar to the aspects of their homes.
• middle class gave values, knowledge, leisure interests, level of language and skills at home that are similar to how school is set up
• cultural capital

Question 4

cultural capital

Answer 4

• bourdieu
• middle class gave values, knowledge, leisure interests, level of language and skills at home that are similar to how school is set up
• serves as an advantage to the children in the education system.
• means that the education system reinforces a middle class identity that has already been constructed by the family and other agents of socialisation.

Question 5

Goodwin

Answer 5

• middle class value deferred gratification and educational achievement so they are constantly striving in order to compete with peers for the most recognition.
• suggests that many middle class mothers define their identities by peer approval through the new breed of mothers
• yummy mummy

Question 6

yummy mummy

Answer 6

• Goodwin
• they are defined by peer approval on maternal capabilities, glamour and the styles and experiences of their children
• middle class mothers define their identities by peer approval

Question 7

saunders

Answer 7

• study on consumption which suggests that those who satisfy their needs through ownership of various goods are influenced heavily by advertising and the media.
• The media targets the middle class as they are the group with the highest disposable income and they often define their identity by what they own.
• conspicuous consumption

Question 8

conspicuous consumption

Answer 8

• saunders
• middle class have conspicuous consumption
• they are very conscious on what they buy and consume in order to make sure others can see what they buy.

Question 9

wright

Answer 9

• the workplace can still create and reinforce a middle class identity because many of its members will occupy contradictory locations within their places of work.
• ‘contradictory class position’
• the middle class are in this position due to the fact they often hold managerial or supervisory roles which gives them some control over resources within organisations
• there are 3 different types of resources which needs to be controlled.

Question 10

contradictory class position

Answer 10

• wright
• the middle class are both exploited by the upper class and also exploit the working class

Question 11

3 different types of resources which needs to be controlled.

Answer 11

• wright
• investment,
  the means of production,
  and labour of power