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Mind Map by RabiaIman:), updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by RabiaIman:)
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How is Upper
Class Identity
Created &
Reinforced?
- Family
- Is by immersing their
children into high culture
practices which clearly
distinguishes them from
individuals in lower social
classes.
- BOURDIEU
- BOURDIEU
- Using their economic capital to
afford their children privileges
that other social classes may not
have access to.
- BOURDIEU (ECONOMIC CAPITAL)
- BOURDIEU (ECONOMIC CAPITAL)
- However, the lack of evidence on
the upper classes may mean that
generalisations are being made
about upper class families.
- Is by immersing their
children into high culture
practices which clearly
distinguishes them from
individuals in lower social
classes.
- Education
- By delivering a curriculum which is
based on the dominant culture. Thus
providing them with an advantage in
education
- BOURDIEU
- BOURDIEU
- Is by enabling the upper class to
establish links which later become an old
boy network.
- SCOTT
- SCOTT
- However, we
must not ignore
that gender and
ethnicity may
have an even
greater impact on
identity & school
experience
- By delivering a curriculum which is
based on the dominant culture. Thus
providing them with an advantage in
education
- Peer group
- By practicing social closure i.e. they maintain
their high positions and status within the
social hierarchy by restricting peer group
membership to just the upper class
- BOURDIEU (SOCIAL CAPITAL)
- BOURDIEU (SOCIAL CAPITAL)
- Is through the creation of an old boys
network which grants economic and
cultural advantages on its members.
- SCOTT
- SCOTT
- However, other agents of
socialisation such as family
and education may have
more of an effect on class
identity compared to the peer
group
- By practicing social closure i.e. they maintain
their high positions and status within the
social hierarchy by restricting peer group
membership to just the upper class
- Media
- By transmitting the idea that high culture
practices are the most desirable within
society
- STRINATI.
- STRINATI.
- By dictating what is published and
broadcasted in the news and this is
often what they deem to be important in
society.
- NEO MARXISTS
- NEO MARXISTS
- However, several studies have pointed out
that media images are not
uncritically internalised by
people; they are negotiated and
sometimes resisted
- By transmitting the idea that high culture
practices are the most desirable within
society
- Workplace
- By gaining economic and cultural
capital on its members by awarding
them with the most influential posts
in society.
- SOCTT (Old boys network)
- SOCTT (Old boys network)
- Through the practice of self
recruitment where the upper class
recruit their own children for the
best jobs.
- GLASS AND HALSEY
- GLASS AND HALSEY
- However, postmodernists argue that social
class is no longer the main factor in haping
identity in contemporary society.
- By gaining economic and cultural
capital on its members by awarding
them with the most influential posts
in society.
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