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Social Class
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Sociology (Social Inequality) Mind Map on Social Class, created by Daniel Johnston on 18/11/2013.
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Social Class
Life Chances
Income
Roberts
"Income inequalities are a direct result of class inequalities"
Phillip Green, earning £1.4 billion
Reduction of tax
Poverty
Poverty trap
'Better off on benefits'
'Worse off working'
Relative poverty rising since 1997
Savage
In 1997 there were three times as many people in relative poverty than there were in the 1970s.
Feinstein (2007)
Survey
17 000 children born in 1970
Extreme poverty is 6 times more likely if born to a labourer
Child poverty has increased
Wealth
20th Century: Redistribution of wealth
Not benefitting the mass of the population!
Inheritance: avoiding paying taxes in the form of death duties
In 2003, the top 1% and top 10% owned 18% and 50% of the nation’s wealth respectively.
Roberts
30% of adults did not own their home
Most are in debt
Health
Working class experience poorer mortality rates and morbidity rates
3500 more working class babies would survive per year
Bartley et al (1996)
Compared death rates amongst social classes.
Education
7% of all children are educated at private schools
Sutton Trust research charity
“Old school tie” network
Classes
Middle
Savage - this group also invest heavily in cultural capital
Roberts - describes a growing sense of insecurity
Privileged group
Tertiary sector has replaced the secondary sector
Upper
Wealth fragmented by inheritance taxes
Exclusiveness eroded by a tide of democracy
Saunders - "it's really too small"
Robinson - "the decline of the aristocracy is entirely imaginary"
Transmission of cultural and social capital
Kinship links
Working
Traditional - Shrinking throughout the 20th Century
Work / Class consciousness/ Respectability/Community
New - Identified during the 50s/60s
Increase in post-war living standards
Embourgeoisment - Goldthorpe et al 1996
Under
NEETS
Disadvantaged group
Bottom of society
Materially deprived
Field
Long term unemployed
Single Parents
Elderly poor
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