Social inequalities: social class

Question 1

What is social class?

Answer 1

It describes the form of social stratification found in modern industrial societies

Question 2

What did karl marx believe about social classes?

Answer 2

He belived that capitalists societies such as Britain were essentially divided into two social classes

Question 3

Who developed The Hope Goldthorpe classification?

Answer 3

John Goldthorpe (1980)

Question 4

What is the Hope Goldthorpe classification?

Answer 4

It was used in order to measure a broader range of socialm classes as well as social mobility.

Question 5

What are the classes in The Hope Goldthorpe Classification?

Answer 5

Service class
1. higher professionals, high grade administrators, managers of large companies and large proprietiors
2. Lower professionals, higher grade technicians, supervisors of non-manual workers, administrators, small business managers
Intermediate class
3. Routine non manual workers
4 Small proprietors ad self employed artisans
5. Lower-grade technicians and supervisors of manual workers
Working class
6. Skilled manual workers
7. Semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers

Question 6

What is Objective Social Class?

Answer 6

Objective social class is based upon the idea that people can be placed in a social class through the use of a scale and measurement device.

Question 7

What is Subjective Social Class?

Answer 7

Subjective social class differs in that it is based upon what people think they are themselves.