SOCIAL CLASS IDENTITY Flashcards
Mackintosh and Mooney
Upper class invisibility- social closure
Fox
Upper middles, middle middles, lower middles
Hutton
Decline in trade union membership and dispersal on working class communities= decline in working class identity
Skeggs
Working class women feel looked down on therefore try harder with their looks
Murray
The underclass- laziness and fecklessness
Who speaks about social closure/ UC invisibility ?
Mackintosh and Mooney
Who speaks about declining working class identities through decline in trade union memberships and communities dispersing?
Hutton
Evidence social class identity is not changing
Money can still buy opportunities
Evidence social class identity is changing
Consumer culture now means we are defined by what we buy
Media gives access to high culture