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Social Class Identity key concepts
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- 1StratificationThe division of a society into hierarchical ordered layers or strata with the most privileged at the top and least favoured at the bottom. The system of stratification currently existing in our capitalist society based on class
- 2The Registrar General's scaleDescriptive approach to measuring social class, used from 1911-1990's based on occupational skill. Top jobs include doctors and solicitors
- 3Th NSSECNational Statics social economic classification, descriptive approach based on occupations according to their similarity of qualifications training skills and experience used from 1997
- 4Objective Definitions of classPeople based in a social class by using a scale or measurement device
- 5Subjective Definitions of classWhere people place themselves and how they define themselves
- 6Ascribed statusPosition born into e.g member of the royal family
- 7Achieved statusPosition a person has worked to get e.g teacher
- 8Traditional Working ClassJobs based in manual and unskilled labour. Traditional gender roles within the family. Politically strong links with the Labour party and trade unions
- 9New Working ClassEmployment based on the service sector and flexible occupations. Increasing affluence/ consumption
- 10Under ClassDescribed as lazy, workshy and criminal. This group are also seen as dependent on benefits (welfare state)
- 11Middle ClassUsually university educated. Likely to be skilled workers and own their own homes.
- 12Traditional Upper ClassAristocracy, ascribed status, economic, social and cultural capital. Concentration of wealth and culture of privilege
- 13Super RichJet Set Pop Aristocracy. Entrepreneurial rich. Achieved status, economic capital and social capital
- 14Entrepreneurial RichHave earned money through business enterprise (Alan Sugar)
- 15Jet Set Pop AristocracyHave earned money through sport, media and entertainment (Wayne Rooney and Katie Price)
- 16MarginalisedAn individual or a group are systematically blocked from various rights opportunities and resources. Which are fundamental to social integration ie housing, employment and due process
- 17Immediate GratificationAssociated with traditional working class, a live for the moment attitude where individuals are unwilling to sacrifice anything for a better future
- 18Deferred GratificationWhen individuals are willing to sacrifice now for benefit in the future e.g working hard in education in order to be more socially mobile. The middle class and New Working Class are more likely to possess these characteristics
- 19Instrumental AttitudesAn attitude that wages/money are the most important aspects of work
- 20MeritocraticA social system in which rewards are allocated on the basis of merit or ability
- 21Social MobilityMovement of groups or individuals up and down the social hierarchy
- 22Popular cultureOpposite of high culture. Associated with shallow activities that can be accessed by the masses through the media
- 23CapitalismAn economic and political systems in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than by the state
- 24Crisis of MasculinityWhen men, who cannot perform traditional manual jobs due to the decrease in availability, feel emasculated
- 25Child CenterdnessWhen the focus of the family is on the child. The child holds a lot of influence. Normally found in middle class families
- 26Cultural CapitalNorms, values, knowledge, language and attitudes which give middle and upper class students an inbuilt advantage in education
- 27Social CapitalNetworking and socialising with others in a similar economic position to advantage them
- 28Economic capitalThe amount of money/ material goods that a person/group possesses
- 29Yummy MummyDefined by peer approval on maternal capabilities, glamour and the 'style' of their children
- 30Conspicuous ConsumptionUsing what you buy/consume to create an identity for ones self
- 31Social closureThe Upper class practice this. Preventing outsiders form joining in their lifestyle and culture of that class
- 32Old Boy NetworkNetworks of contacts used to further each others careers and influence. Networks formed with people sharing similar cultural characteristics often formed at school
- 33High CultureLinked to the elite, upper class society. Need to be economically and socially connected to access it
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- The key concepts from social class identity
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- Yasmine King · dez 2016
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