Social class Identities Flashcards
Upper class identities
Scott
Macintosh and Mooney
Kenway
Middle class identities
Bourdieu
Goodwin
Saunders
Wright
working class identities
Willis
Mac an Ghail
Metens and D’Haenens /Helsper
Underclass identities
Murray
evaluation - Jordan
Changing
Pakulski and waters
Offe
Skeggs
Scott
Upperclass Upper class - Social closure, intermarriage, high culture, old boy network
Macintosh and Mooney
Upperclass Upper class - Status and class is based on occupation
Us and them
value themselves more than people in other classes see
Kenway
Upperclass Privately educated school girls - Exclude others by devaluing comprehensive student
Goodwin
Middleclass Middle class ‘yummy mummies’ - Gain status through inclusion / status symbols
no longer hegemonic female but now rely on materal capitlties
Bourdieu
Middleclass Hidden curriculum rewards social, cultural and economic capital
middle class vaules reunforce muddle class idenities
Saunders
Middleclass Middle class - High disposable income / ‘conspicuous consumption’
Wright
Middleclass Middle class in a ‘contradictory class position’ - Exploited by upper class. Exploit working class
Willis
working class Working class ‘lads’ - Fatalistic about futures - Unskilled manual labour work
Mac an Ghail
working class
Deindustrialisation has caused high unemployment and a ‘crisis of masculinity’ for working class males
Mertens and D’haenens /helsper
Studied the digital divide in class and the internet. Those from a lower social classes used the internet less (81% were users as opposed to 94% of middle class people) lower social classes were seen to use it as for entertainment purposes where as middle class people used it for educational and to boost their knowleagesd purposes.
