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Social Class Inequalities Flashcards

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1
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What is the resource for measuring income?

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Gini coefficient

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Name two other resources relating to income and wealth.

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Family Resource Survey (Living conditions)

Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Distribution of time worked compared to wage)

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What does income affect?

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1) Sufficiency and quality of food and housing
2) Reputable education
3) Medical care
4) Consumer goods

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What is Parsons’ functionalist POV on social class inequality?

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The skilled and successful should be rewarded to encourage capitalism and so others imitate them.

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What is David and Moore’s functionalist beliefs on social class inequality?

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1) Functional uniqueness

2) Degree of independence

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What were Tumin’s criticisms of David and Moore?

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1) Jobs of different pay can be equal importance
2) Inequality stops people from doing unique jobs
3) Enjoyment of job could be > pay

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What is Saunders’ New Right POV on social class inequality?

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Equal society is only possible with force and left wing governments have risen tax on rich which is demotivating.

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What is Murray’s New Right POV on social class inequality?

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Left wing governments have created a ‘dependency culture’ so the underclass becomes lazy and reliant on state/upper classes.

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What is the Marxist and Weberian POV on social class inequality?

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Managers can determine own and other salaries, which they are then alienated to accept.

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10
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Define wealth.

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Abundance of value of possessions and resources

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What source calculates wealth?

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Office for National Statistics

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12
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Name 4 flaws of wealth calculation method.

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1) Wealth accumulates with age
2) Value is hard to find exactly
3) People hide wealth or taxing reasons
4) Shares are not always accessible

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13
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Outline Atkinsons Study.

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Found that the wealth from assets is what causes social class inequality, rather than your job/gender etc.

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What is intragenerational mobility?

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Upwards movement in the workplace hierarchy.

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What is intergenerational mobility?

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A difference in occupation to your parents.

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Outline Savage and Egerton’s study.

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1) Working class had shrunk so there were more opportunities for those that remained.
2) Females were less likely to experience intragenerational mobility.

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Define status.

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Distribution of social honour.

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What are the flaws of calculating status?

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1) Based on finance and success but can be influenced by ethnicity/gender/lifestyle.
2) Lower class can have high status due to charitability or talents.

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What is Weber’s POV on status?

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People naturally interact with those of similar status as them.

20
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Define Weber’s social stratifications.

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1) Class
2) Status
3) Political party

21
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What is a risk society?

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Risks created by science and technology e.g. pollution, job loss

22
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Define social class.

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Stratification system used in industrial societies to determine ones wealth, job and income.

23
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What are postmodernist’s overall POV on social class inequalities?

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Class is losing its significance and that it was too much of a general issue - needed to focus on individualism.

24
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What did postmodernist’s Pakulski and Water’s study show?

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People are now stratified via culture, not economics.

25
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What did postmodernist Beck’s study show?

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There are now enough resources and schemes to avoid absolute poverty

26
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What did the 2007 Tax Records show?

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Inequality was at highest level since 1940’s.

27
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What percentage of children are born into bottom 30% of income distribution?

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40%

28
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What percentage of children never escape from poverty?

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25%

29
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What did Wilkinson’s study show?

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The lower of incomes were at the poorest point of the ‘Health Gradient’.

30
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50% of Britain has ____ % of Britain’s wealth

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10

31
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What does Timmins say about the area that you’re brought up in?

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It effects our life chances and those who we associate with.

32
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What are the 7 ways that Social Class is measured?

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1) Ruling and subject class
2) Manual and non-manual workers
3) Goldthorpe scale
4) Socio-economic scale
5) Occupation and social class
6) Subjective social class
7) The underclass

33
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What is the measurement of ‘ruling and social class’?

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Used by Marxists who believe there is a bourgeoisie and proletariat class in society.

34
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What is the measurement of ‘manual and non-manual workers’?

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Used by modern sociologists who believe in the human capital theory and segregation based on job and income. Also believe the middle class are generally educated and paid well.

35
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What is the measurement of ‘Goldthorpe scale’?

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Belief that the 3 main classes often split into 7 more specific ones.

36
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What is the measurement of ‘socio-economic scale’?

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Used to measure people based on Census and government surveys.

37
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What is the measurement of ‘occupation and social class’?

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Belief that a person’s job reveals their income and level of education.

38
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What is the measurement of ‘subjective social class’?

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Measurement considering what people think they are in comparison to what they actually are.

39
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What does Marshall say about the subjective social class?

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Some middle class people are actually working class.

40
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What does Savage say about the subjective social class?

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People are reluctant to discuss their class at all.

41
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What percentage of those in employment are from private education?

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7%

42
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How many Judiciary workers are from private school?

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3/4

43
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How many doctors are from private school?

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3/5

44
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How many MP’s are from private school?

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50%

45
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What does Marxist Althusser say about social class inequality ?

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Meritocracy is a myth

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