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Patterns and Trends in Social Class - A2 OCR SOCIOLOGY
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Mind Map of key sociologists and theories involved in the patterns and trends in social class. Part of OCR As and A2 Sociology unit 2015 onwards.
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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
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