Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Patterns and Trends in Social Class -
A2 OCR SOCIOLOGY
- Income
- Wilson and Pickett
- Poverty Brings
socio-economic
backgrounds
- Poor diet
- Weak Immune system
- High divorce rates
- Depression
- The flow of money to a person or
househole over a rime period
- The rich pay more in taxes, but
they pay a smaller percentage of
their income
- In the last year, chief executive
wages rose by 49%, but workers
wages only rose 3%
- Wealth
- 'Stock' concept of economic
resources and posessions of a
person or household at a
specific time
- Hard to define what
counts as wealth
- Rowlingson and Mullineux
- Birmingham Commissions Report
- Wealth inequalities occur in different ways
- physical and mental wellbeing
- employment opportunities
- Educational opportunities
- Atkinson
- Increasing proportion of
national income comes
from inhereted wealth
- John Hills
- The sunday times list is probably better at
capturing buisness assets, but the ONS data
probably gives better coverage of assets such as
pensions
- The poorest 50% of the population
own 10% of national wealth
- Work and Employment
- Inequalities in...
- Financial rewards
- Status
- Power and Control
- Opportunities for advancement
- Job Satisfaction
- Job Security
- Measuring Social Class
- Hope-Goldthorpe Classification
- 7 occupational classes
- Service class, Intermediate class, working class
- Murray
- Underclass
- National Statistics Socio-Economic classification
- Used to classifcy individuals in official statistics
- Submissive
- Marshall et al.
- Many people call themselves working
class despite having non-manual jobs
- Savage
- People are reluctant to identify
themselves with a social class
- "Relatively muted"
- Tony Blair
- "we are all woking class now"
- Max Weber
- Life chances
- Social Mobility
- Two types...
- Intergeneration
- Intrageneration
- Goldthorpe
- Oxford Mobility Study
- Didn't study women
- Based on occupations, which not everyone has
- Roberts
- Female and male social mobility differs
- Female intermediate class
- Upward mobility opportunity for the working class
- Chances of escaping the working class didn't not increase though
- Poverty
- Two types...
- Aboslute
- Bradshaw
- Budget standard of poverty
- Relative
- Mack and Lansley
- Necessities
- Lacking 3 = poor
- Lacking 5 = severe poverty