Social Class Flashcards
1
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MacIntosh and Mooney
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- upper class key feature is there invisibility, they operate social closure.
2
Q
Tony Blair
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- we are all middle class know
3
Q
Fox
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- upper middle, middle middle and lower middles
4
Q
Hutton
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- decline in trade unions and manufacturing sector- working class identity has eroded
5
Q
Skeggs
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- looked at working class women who felt humiliated and dismissed. As a result, they changed the way they looked to fit in: the way they dressed, home decor and leisure activities
6
Q
Murray
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- overgenerous spending on underclass, and on benefits given to them increases dependence culture.
7
Q
Murray
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- bulimic society- blames the underclass for rising crime rates
8
Q
POMO
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- class is not important, you can be whoever you want to be in society
9
Q
Paluski and Waters
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- from product to consumption- class not important because individuals know are judged by their consumption
10
Q
Offe
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- argues in today’s society there is no such thing as a lifetime job- individuals also within work do not have common experiences
11
Q
Savage et al
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- few people saw society as classless, they believed that society is a paradox, and that class acts as a structure within people’s lives
12
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Marsh et al
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- 90% of people could put themselves in a class
- 60% of people thought they belonged to a class
- 75% of people felt that they were born in a class and could not leave it.
