Working class disadvantage in the workplace, income and wealth

Question 1

Willis
Where do working class boys see their futures?
What does this mean?
What does a lack of qualifications restrict them from being

Answer 1

Working class boys see their futures as working in basic manual labour like their fathers therefore they do not aspire to achieve more in education leading them to have a lack of qualifications to be socially mobile

Question 2

Inequality briefing (2019)
Country?
% of what group in society
What do they own in society? (%))

Answer 2

In the UK the top 20% of the wealthiest own 60% of all wealth

Question 3

Mac n Ghail

Answer 3

Deinstitutionalisation led to working class males suffering a crisis of masculinity- decline of traditional manual labour jobs and more feminised office based work