Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Has class identity changed?
- Underclass
- Those at the bottom of society
- Term is now often used in a negative way to describe
those who rely on benefits
- Murray
- Underclass are unemployed, single parents, drug addicts and criminals. They are
lazy, workshy, immoral, criminal and dependent on benefits. It is their own fault
they have a culture based on idleness, failure and criminality
- Jordan
- The underclass have the same values and attitudes as everyone else in
society most would work if they had the chance
- Pakulski and Waters
- Shift from production to consumption in defining
identities
- Offe
- fewer and fewer individuals share a common,
unifying experience of full time work
- There has been a decline in manual work, this means
that a sense of working class identity has changed and
solidarity weakened
- New working class identity
- Skeggs
- Working class women have instrumental attitude to work. Means to an end.
Capitalism is an effective means of rising living standards. Individualism putting
themselves first