Q3) 20 marker - Social class identity

Question 1

Cohen (class)

Answer 1

(+) Causes social immobility and status frustration, turn to crime to let off steam and resist creating cycle with no chance to progress

Question 2

Skeggs (class)

Answer 2

(+) Changes way that people are percieved and treated by others, working class women are humiliated by upper class and made to feel infrerior or excluded

Question 3

Lea + Young (class)

Answer 3

(+) Reduces quality of life and end up in relative deprivation and joining subcultures

Question 4

Offe (class)

Answer 4

(-) Distinctions are blurring bc full time work is no longer a unifying experience that allows people to determine social class

Question 5

Polhemus (class)

Answer 5

(-) There is a supermarket of style where people can choose who they want to be regardless of social class

Question 6

Young (class)

Answer 6

(-) There is now meritocracy so people can achieve if they work hard regardless of what social class they are in

Question 7

Which sociologists argue that social class is important?

Answer 7

• Cohen
• Skeggs
• Lea and young

Question 8

Which sociologists argue that social class is no longer important?

Answer 8

• Offe
• Pohlemus
• Young