Strat 2: Fiona Devine Flashcards
D: What does the term ‘affluent’ mean?
E: Which previous study is FD testing?
C: What does ‘privatised instrumentalism’ mean?
D: Wealthy.
E: Goldthorpe and Lockwood.
C: privatised= basing life around the home.
instrumentalism= work is a means to an end (eg to enjoy life at home).
D: What is FD’s conclusion of the study?
E: What had the previous study concluded?
C: What did FD find out about affluent workers?
D: That social class still matters.
E: That as the working class were becoming wealthier, they would do paid work so that they could spend more quality time in the home.
C: That they had better living standards as they got wealthier, but that they still held traditional working class values.
D: What research method did FD use?
E: Name one advantage of this method?
C: Is this method representative or reliable?
D: unstructured interviews.
E: They tend to be valid, especially if rapport is built.
C: It is a reasonable number, 62- but not representative of the whole working class.
It revisits a previous study in the same location, so is being replicated to an extent. But, an unstructured method cannot be reliable, as different questions are used with all participants.
D: When did FD’s research take place?
E: When did the original study take place?
C: Is FD’s study still relevant today?
D: The late 1980s
E: The early 1960s
C: The study is about testing whether the working class changed between the 1960s and 1980s, as Goldthorpe and Lockwood predicted. She wasn’t aiming to make a statement about the UK today, but the number of workers in factories has declined since that time.
D: The the FD’s participants think that the differences between social classes was fair?
E: Were workers joining together to get better pay because they understood that they were part of the same social class fight?
C: What is the Marxist term to mean that the proletariat don’t understand that they are part of the same social group and that if they worked together against the bourgeoisie they could achieve so much more.
D: No. They thought that it was unfair that some people were born into wealth and privilege.
E: No, they were doing this as private individuals wanting more for themselves and their families.
C: False class consciousness.
