SOCIAL CLASS

Question 1

SCOTT - UPPER CLASS

Answer 1

Upper class - Social closure, intermarriage, high culture, old boy network

Question 2

MACINTOSH AND MOONEY - UPPER CLASS

Answer 2

Upper class - Status and class is based on occupation

Question 3

KENWAY - UPPER CLASS

Answer 3

Privately educated school girls - Exclude others by devaluing comprehensive students

Question 4

KING AND RAYNOR - MIDDLE CLASS

Answer 4

Middle class - Child centred

Question 5

BOURDIEU - MIDDLE CLASS

Answer 5

Hidden curriculum rewards social, cultural and economic capital

Question 6

GOODWIN - MIDDLE CLASS

Answer 6

Middle class ‘yummy mummies’ - Gain status through inclusion / status symbols

Question 7

SAUNDERS - MIDDLE CLASS

Answer 7

Middle class - High disposable income / ‘conspicuous consumption

Question 8

WRIGHT - MIDDLE CLASS

Answer 8

Middle class in a ‘contradictory class position’ - Exploited by upper class. Exploit working class

Question 9

WILLIS - WORKING CLASS

Answer 9

Working class ‘lads’ - Fatalistic about futures - Unskilled manual labour work

Question 10

MAC AN GHAILL - WORKING CLASS

Answer 10

Deindustrialisation has caused high unemployment and a ‘crisis of masculinity’ for working class male

Question 11

BOWLES AND GINTIS - WORKING CLASS

Answer 11

What we learn in education corresponds to what we need to know in the workplace - Working class are socialised into exploitation

Question 12

BOURDIEU - WORKING CLASS

Answer 12

Hidden curriculum rewards social, cultural and economic capital - Working class have less of this so don’t succee

Question 13

MERTENS AND D’HAENENS / HELSPER - WORKING CLASS

Answer 13

Digital underclass - Children are victims of this

Question 14

MURRAY - UNDERCLASS

Answer 14

Underclass are lazy and workshy

Question 15

JORDAN - UNDERCLASS (EVAL)

Answer 15

Critical of Murray - Underclass is made up of elderly, disabled, long-term sick etc

Question 16

PAKULSKI AND WATERS - POSTMODERN

Answer 16

We are now defined by what we buy, not what we do with regards to occupation

Question 17

OFFE - POSTMODERN

Answer 17

Fewer and fewer individuals share a common, unifying experience of full time work - The days when people had a job for life have gone

Question 18

SKEGGS - POSTMODERN

Answer 18

Found that working class woman had instrumental attitudes to work - Worked to buy products - Gain status