Social Class

Question 1

Marxist- Marx

Answer 1

Infrastructure shed the superstructure - bourgeoisie own the majority of wealth

Question 2

Marxist- Westergard

Answer 2

Polarisation- rich getting richer and poor getting poorer

Question 3

Marxist- Scott

Answer 3

Social Closure- upper class do it to maintain their wealth - inter class marriage , old boys network

Question 4

Neo - Marxist- Gramsci

Answer 4

Hegemony - ruling class gets just enough working class on their side to follow ruling class ideology

Question 5

Neo - Marxist- Bravermaan

Answer 5

Proletarianisation - middle class identify more with working class identity - deskilling due to control and freedom over work

Question 6

Marxist feminist - Benston

Answer 6

Women’s domestic work is unpaid , men are providing-less likely to challenge the capitalist system

Question 7

Marxist feminist - Feeley

Answer 7

Family designed to teach passivity not rebellion

Question 8

Marxist feminist - Ansley

Answer 8

Women are the takers of shit-husbands let their verbal frustration out on wives

Question 9

Marxist feminist - Beechy

Answer 9

Women are in the reserve army of labour

Question 10

Functionalist- Durkheim

Answer 10

Class stratification existed because its functionally - beneficial
division of labour social class , value consensus legitimacy stratification

Question 11

Functionalist- Parsons

Answer 11

Ranking consensus - Kinship,personal quality, achievement, possessions , authority,more you have the more successful stratification is the the outcome of the general agreement

Question 12

Functionalist - Davis and Moore

Answer 12

Stratification is permanent and universal feature functionally necessary - certain guidance , innate ability

Question 13

New Right - Saunders

Answer 13

Social mobility involves changes in class - good for society

Question 14

New Right - Murray

Answer 14

Dependency culture - underclass don’t take control of their situation - lazy and work sky

Question 15

Weberian - Weber

Answer 15

Class, status, party - explain difference between social groups

Question 16

Weberin - Draper

Answer 16

Middle class - Herring and Strawberries

Question 17

Weberian - Savage

Answer 17

Middle class separated public sector or private sector

Question 18

Weberian - Giddens

Answer 18

Fragmentation of upper class- traditional upper class, Entreprenarial rich, Jet set pop aristocracy

Question 19

Weberian - Zweig

Answer 19

Embourgeoisement - middle class and working class are disappearing with well- paid manual workers emerging into the middle class

Question 20

Postmodernist - Pakulski and Waters

Answer 20

Pick and mix existence of multiple identities

Question 21

Postmodernist - Beck

Answer 21

Risk society - innovation , technology and biological development - risk of unknown - everyone has individual personalities

Question 22

Postmodernist - Furlong and Cartmel

Answer 22

Railway journey - boarded different trains - working class tend to get working class jobs -now - car you determine were you go