Social Class- Sociologist

Question 1

Middle class

Answer 1

"We are all middle class now"- tony Blair 
Fox(2004) discusses 'upper middles', 'middle middles' and 'lower middles' to highlight these differences within the middle class.

Question 2

Working class

Answer 2

• Hutton(1995) has argued that the decline in trade union membership and the manufacturing sector, and the dispersal of working-communities has eroded working class identity.
• Skeggs(1997) studied women who felt humiliated by the ways in which others such as , teachers doctors, judged and dismissed them because of their working class background. So these women made a lot of effort to show that they were respectable, by taking care in how they dress, their leisure pursuits and their home decorations.

Question 3

Underclass

Answer 3

Murray(1984) who argues that over generous benefits encourage some people to develop a culture, or a set of norms and values, in which they do not take responsibility for their own actions and have an expectation that they will be looked after by the state.

Question 4

Does class still matter

Answer 4

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Question 5

Upper class

Answer 5

Mackintosh and mooney(2004) have pointed out that a key feature of upper class is their invisibility.