PATTERNS AND TRENDS = FEMINISM

Question 1

feminists view on social class inequalities?

Answer 1

• focused more on gender inequalities
• highly critical of traditional sociological theories of class because it neglects women and gender inequalities

Question 2

who criticises the Goldthorpe study?

Answer 2

Abbott

Question 3

what does Abbott argue?

Answer 3

states how Goldthorpe ignores women and that there is a need to study women’s social mobility because their experiences re different from men.

Question 4

what’s the difference between men and women for social mobility?

Answer 4

• women actually have lower rates o absolute mobility because they have less chance of reaching top jobs.

Question 5

what new classification has researchers developed?

Answer 5

• surrey scale = which differences between women and men in different occupational classes more effectively

Question 6

who developed the surrey scale?

Answer 6

• Arber, Dale, Gilbert

Question 7

what are the categories in the surrey scale?

Answer 7

1. higher professional
2. employers and mangers
3. lower professional
   4.secretarial and clerical
4. supervisors and self-employed manual
5. sales and personal service
6. skilled manual
7. unskilled

Question 8

what does the surrey scale reflect?

Answer 8

the gendered nature of work in society today

Question 9

what are the critics of surrey scale?

Answer 9

• women occupation are not necessarily a good guide to their class position because many women work part time or short term jobs due to pregnancy
• many women with male partner is what mainly determines the income and lifestyle of the rest of the household

Question 10

what doe Ken Roberts argue?

Answer 10

we no longer assume that women share a class position with their male partners.
- women remain single or form partnership later in life and divorce is more common
- men die earlier
- depends more on education and career of their own