Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Middle Class Identity
- Family
- Encourages achievement with
regards to education
- Deferred Gratification
- King and Raynor
- They reinforce attitudes and values about the importance
of educational success
- Positive and negative sanctions
- King and Raynor
- child centered parenting is a
distinctive feature
- Education
- Hidden Curriculum
rewards middle class
values
- Bourdieu
- school helps to socialise into middle class identities
- Role models. Imitation, rewards and sanctions
- Bourdieu
- They have values, knowledge, leisure interests and levels of
language skills at home that are similar to how school is set up.
- Cultural Capital
- Peer Group
- Constantly striving and hence compete
with peers for recognition
- Goodwin
- middle class mothers define their identities by peer approval.
Yummy Mummies defined by peer approval on maternal
capabilities, glamour and styles and the experiences of their
children
- Saunders
- Consumption
- Media
- They target the middle class
because they have the highest
disposable income
- Saunders
- Conspicuous consumption buying
products to show of your wealth
- Workplace
- Wright
- Occupy a contradictory class position.
They are both exploited and exploit
- Traditionally Professional or
managerial careers