Social Class Inequality

Question 1

( education ) Working Class see their futures as working in manual labour ( like their fathers )
- don’t aspire for more, anti school, negative labelling

Answer 1

Willis

Question 2

( education )Laddettes are generally working class and adopt anti school attitudes
- assertive femininity, smoking/ drinking, arguing with teachers

Answer 2

Jackson

Question 3

(education ) Education system is biased towards dominant classes culture, devalues working class
- ‘hidden curriculum’, WC lack cultural capital, disadvantaged

Answer 3

Bordieu

Question 4

( education ) Males face ‘crisis of masculinity’ due to deindustrialisation
- children are anti school, view future as unemployed

Answer 4

Mac an Ghail

Question 5

( education ) upper class pay for private schools, culture of privilege instilled
- hidden curriculum teaches superiority + they make connections ( old boy network )

Answer 5

Scott

Question 6

( workplace) deindustrialisation has lead to ‘ crisis of masculintiy’ for wc males
- unemployment

Answer 6

Mac an Ghail

Question 7

( workplace) WC males see their future as working in basic manual labour like their fathers
- don’t aspire for more

Answer 7

Willis

Question 8

( workplace) upper class exercise social closure, ensures they have highest concentration of wealth
- intermarriage, high culture, old boy network

Answer 8

Scott

Question 9

( media) ‘poverty porn’ to describe programmes such as benefit street
- underclass exploited by media to entertain

Answer 9

Price

Question 10

( media) discusses the use of the word chav ( council house and violent )
- stereotypical view

Answer 10

Jones

Question 11

( media ) media is the new ‘opium of the people’ - distracts wc from social issues in capitalist society
- media is another way ruling class control masses

Answer 11

Milliband ( Marxist)