Upper class Flashcards
1
Q
Scott
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- Old boy network
- believes that lifelong friendships in high statuses develops career and maintains status.
- The upper class socialise with upper class contacts that they have met through private schools and elite universities
- privilege. Their hidden curriculum teaches values such as superiority, conservatism and acceptance of authority.
- education is important as it socialises children into a culture of privilege.
2
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‘Old boy network’
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- peer groups who share the same cultural assets.
- These contacts are central in furthering their careers and enables them to have more influence.
- Contacts advantage them for securing business deals and gaining promotions which exercises social closure by employing upper class people and maintaining their social class and status.
3
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Macintosh and mooney
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- the upper class are those with inherited wealth in the form of land.
- A key feature of the upper class is their invisibility which is known as their ‘social closure’, meaning that their education, leisure time and daily lives are separated from the rest of the population.
4
Q
social closure
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- Macintosh and mooney, shows ho the upper class are exclusive as they do not share their interests and leisure times with the rest of the population.
5
Q
kenway
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- privately educated girls maintain their high levels of self esteem by maintaining their status and achievement by devaluing the achievements and capabilities of state-educated young people.
