Social Class Identity

Question 1

Hutton (1995)

Answer 1

argues that the decline in the manufacturable sector and working class community has eroded working class identity

Question 2

Fox (2004)

Answer 2

discussed ‘upper middles’ ‘middle middles’ and ‘lower middles’ to highlight the differences within the middle class suggesting that it’s unlikely that they all share a common experience and identity

Question 3

Skeggs (1997)

Answer 3

studies working class women who felt humiliated by how others judged and dismissed them due to their social class thus they felt a strain to show that they were respectable

Question 4

Mackintosh and Mooney (2004)

Answer 4

argues that the key feature of the upper class is their invisibility and ‘social closure’ where their education and leisure time aren’t exactly visible to the rest of the population

Question 5

EVALUATION:

Offe (1985)

Answer 5

postmodernists such as Offe argue that in today’s society free people share a common experience of full time work - the experience that used to shape the culture of social classes