Sociologists Flashcards
Scott
Old boy network, role of life, gain social capital
Macintosh and Mooney
Social class give a sense of belonging, viewed on what job you have, occupation affecting identity
Kenway
Social class and class position being important to privately educate girls, these girls maintain self esteem by achieve,nets of young people
King and Raynor
Parents socialise middle class identities by reinforcing attitudes, child centeredness
Bourdieu
School helping socialise people inept middle class identities, middle class have value, knowledge p, leisure, etc.
Goodwin
Peer approval to the mothers in middle class, value deferred gratification and educational achievements
Saunders
Those who satisfy themselves through goods are influenced heavily by media
Wright
Middle class position due to the fact they often hold managerial or supervisory roles, three resources: investment, means of production and labour power
Willis
Lads value ‘having a laff’, anti school attitude, influenced by peer groups,workplace and family e.g. older brother and fathers
Mac an Ghail
Job roles: manual labour workers and miners, traditional jobs declining shift towards more part time roles and deionisation, males face long term unemployment, low paid jobs, crisis of masculinity
Bowles and Gintis
Education function maintain legitimise and reproduce class inequalities in wealth and power, next generation to be taught to accept exploitation
Mertens and D’haenens
Lower social classes uses the internet less, used technology as a form of entertainment, middle class uses internet to boost their knowledge
Murray
Underclass: dishonest, disrespectful, undeserving and feckless. Single mothers are to blame for illegitimacy, black males suspected more for crimes- stereotypical. Crime: theft, mugging, violent crimes. Young males imitate their older brothers and fathers when partaking in crime
Jordan
Disagree with Murray, underclass have same values and attitudes as everyone, love to work but can’t, feel sense of shame, unemployment brings low self esteem, insecurity and poor mental and physical health
Pakulski and Waters
Shirt from production to consumption in defining identities, defined by what we buy not what we do
Offe
Able to create our own identities regardless of social class of our families, contemporary UK gives choices and opportunities to everyone, media gives access to endless range of information and cultural experience, manual workers make up half of the who,es workforce in UK
Skeggs
Working class women have instrumental attitudes towards work, new working class believe in individualism, new working class look to role models in media who were working class background but became successful
