Social Class Inequalities Flashcards

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How many ways are there to define social class?

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There are six ways to define social class

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What is the Marxist view definition?

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There are two classes the ruling class and the working class, defined by who owns the means of production

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What is the Manual and Non Manual definition?

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There are three social class, upper,middle and lower, divided by manual labor, the working class are manual laborers where as the middle class don’t perform manual labour

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What is the Hope-Goldthorpe definition?

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The Hope-Goldthorpe 1980 scale recognizes 3 main social classes( service,working and intermediate) but these are further sub-categorized into 7 occupational classes

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What is Charles Murray’s definition?

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Believes there are four social classes to the emerging underclass, a class dependent upon government benefits

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What is the NS-SEC scale?

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Used by the government , built off the ONS it measures social positioning by 8 social classes

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What is the occupational definition?

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Social class is based on occupations that peoples class is based upon their income, status and power

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What is the subjective social class definition?

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Subjective social class means which social class people see themselves as belonging too

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What is the Great British Class Survey?

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Measures social class by economic, social and cultural capital aspects, uses Bordeaux’s ideas of capital to provide with seven social class

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