SS Dimensions

Question 1

Basis of Class(Weber)

Answer 1

Property ownership
Marketable skills

Question 2

4 classes acc to Weber

Answer 2

Propertied Upper class
Property less White collar workers
Petty Bourgeoisie
Manual working class

Question 3

Counter to Marx & Weberian class analysis

Answer 3

Postmodern critique of Marx & Weber’s class analysis
Jan Pakulski & Malcom Waters(Rise of status-based differentiation)

Question 4

Neo-Marxist persp on class

Answer 4

John Westergaard
class much more relevant in late 20th cen
class ineq incr.

Question 5

Giddens(class types)

Answer 5

3 classes
Upper(property)
Middle(credentials)
Lower(labor power)

Question 6

status grp study

Answer 6

Goldthorpe affluent worker study
Status of white-collar workers > manual workers with high wage

Question 7

Ethnicity thinker

Answer 7

DL Noel(3 necessary conditions for hierarchies to emerge in ethnic grps->ECP(ethnocentrism, competition, power differentials))

Question 8

Scientific racism

Answer 8

Joseph Gobineau & Robert Knox

Question 9

Race relations approach

Answer 9

Robert E Park
race r/ns cycle:C2A2(contact conflict accomodation assimilation)

Question 10

Marxist persp of race

Answer 10

Oliver Cox & John Rex

Question 11

4 dimensions of status

Answer 11

Pierre Bourdieu(lifestyle choices>class)
Cultural cap, Eco cap, Social cap, Symbolic cap

Question 12

Class & status not always same(eg)

Answer 12

In US
High status grps(doctors,firefighters)
High class(Rich businessmen)