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What is stratification?

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The division of a society into hierarchical ordered layers, with the most privileged at the top and the least favoured at the bottom

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What is the Registrar Generals Scales?

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Before 1997 it was the main form of classifying people into social class based on their occupation

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What is the NSSEC?

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National Statistics Socio-economic Classification, new form of classification based on occupation to reflect changes in the labour marker

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What is objective definitions of class?

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Uses a measurement of class by asking respondents questions based on indicators like income and occupation

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What is subjective definitions of class?

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Ask people to rate their own class

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What is ascribed status?

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Status you are born with (royal family)

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What is achieved status?

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Status you earn (Alan Sugar)

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What is traditional working class?

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Manual labour, close knit communities, mutual support in childcare and financial work/help. Immediate gratification

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What is new working class?

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Private lives, flexible occupations, increasing consumption, employment based on their service sector

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What is under class?

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Marxists say the system disadvantage he poor

Murray says they are dependant on benefits

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What is middle class?

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Conspicuous consumption, deferred gratification, child centred ness, conservatism, meritocracy, disposable income

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What is Traditional upper class?

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Extended families, monarchy/aristocracy, ‘old boy network’

Cultural, social and economic capitals

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What is the super rich class?

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Jet set pop aristocracy, entrepreneurial, achieved status, economic and social capital, ‘rags to riches’

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What is jet set pop aristocracy?

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Sometimes known as ‘new money’ people who become rich through sport, media or entertainment

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What is entrepreneurial rich?

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Business owners, directors of retail, publishing, banking and finance, property development

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What is marginalised?

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To put people in positions of importance

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What is Immediate gratification?

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Want to be rewarded as soon as possible

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What is deferred gratification?

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People who can wait to be rewarded

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Instrumental attitudes

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Work is a means to an end, a way of gaining money

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Meritocratic

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A fair society that gives people opportunities based on their ability

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Social mobility

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Possibility to change social groups

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Popular culture

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Majority of people follow this culture

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Capitalism

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Society based on a majority ruling class owning the mean of production

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Crisis of masculinity

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Working class, men who feel lost after de-industrialisation and some women becoming breadwinners

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Child centeredness

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Middle class revolve their lives around the children and their future

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Cultural capital

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Educational advantages

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Social capital

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Network advantages

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Economic capital

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Financial advantages

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Yummy Mummy

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Middle class women who like to show their perfection and money

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Conspicuous consumption

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Buying products to look good

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Social closure

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Upper class don’t let others in

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Old boy network

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Upper class give each other contacts for work/opportunities etc

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High culture

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Culture of the upper class

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Individualism

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The pursuit of personal happiness and independence

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Theoretical approach on class

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Sociologists have different ideas about which classes exist and why
Marxism suggests there are only two groups of social class, the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat

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Top and bottom class jobs in the Registrar Generals scale

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Top - accountants, architects, doctors, dentists, solicitors

Bottom - road sweepers, labourers, window cleaners

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Top and bottom class on the NSSEC scale

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Top - Company directors, corporate managers, bank managers, military officers
Bottom - Waiters, Road sweepers, cleaner

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Established middle class

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Diverse range of cultural activities, socialise with broadway range of people, work in management or traditional professions, middle class background live outside urban areas

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Technical middle class

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Mix socially with people similar to themselves, work in research, science and technical fields, enjoy emerging culture such as the gym and social media

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New Affluent Workers

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Economically secure, quite high emerging, don’t participate in high culture, come from working class background, live in old manufacturing sections like the Midlands and North West

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Emergent service workers

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Youngest, highest emerging culture (sports, gigs, social media) urban group in large cities, socialise with a broad range of people

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Traditional working class

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Own their own home, mix socially with people like them, don’t enjoy emerging culture, oldest average age, lorry drivers and electricians

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Precariat

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Tend to mix socially with people like themselves, come from working class background, over 80% rent their home

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Values of the traditional upper class

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Extended families 
Monarchy/aristocracy 
Social closure/ old boy network
Economic,social,cultural capital
Coherent/solid concentration of wealth
Privileged culture/small group
Landowners/common background
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Values of the new Super Rich

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Jet set pop aristocracy
Entrepreneurial rich
Achieved status
Economic capital
Social capital 
‘Rags to Riches’
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Value of traditional middle class
Middle class are interchangeable
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•conspicuous consumption 
Social aspiration
Meritocracy
Instrumental attitudes 
Conservatism
Cultural/economic capital 
Consumer culture
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Values of the new middle class
Middle class are interchangeable
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•Deferred gratification
•Child centerdness
Social anxiety 
Domesticity 
Social comparability
Social capital
Yummy Mummies
Contradictory class position
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What is endogamy?

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Marrying into your social class

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Values of traditional working class

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•Immediate gratification 
Dangerous jobs
Belong to trade unions 
Engage in industrial action
Strong political identity (Labour)
Close-knit communities 
Mutual support in childcare, financial help and finding work
Cheaper homes, manual labour
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Values of the new working class

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• Employment based on the service sector (Feminised)
Private lives 
Flexible occupations 
Rise in home owners
Shared responsibilities in homes
Increasing consumption
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How do the upper class gain social capital?

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Being invited into exclusive social events

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How do upper class see popular culture?

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As low culture and not valuable

53
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What do private schools teach the upper class?

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Private schools and Oxbridge teach a culture of privilege. The hidden curriculum teaches superiority, conservatism and acceptance of authority.

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Who are the Bourgeoise?

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Marxism calls them the Ruling class. They own the means of production, factories, machinery and land etc

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Who are the Proletariat?

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Marxism calls them the working class. They have to use the means of production for survival and only have their labour to sell in return for a wage. Forced to work for the ruling class in order to survive.

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Why do the ruling class need the working class?

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So they can exploit them for surplus value (profits of capitalism)

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What is cultural deprivation?

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Elders passing on anti-school behaviour onto male youth

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