Britain’s New Ordinary Class Elite
The top 6% of the UK population by wealth and income make up a new elite class who also have the most cultural and social capital
Social class, wealth and income inequalities
cultural capital
Sociology key terms
Unequal parental choice
marketisation policies mean unequal parental choice as middle class parents have more cultural capital
Social class, wealth and income inequalities
The Great British Class Survey
The GBCS found seven ‘objective’ social classes based on economic, cultural and social capital. However, most people do not identify with these social classes!
inequality, social mobility
The working class don’t feel like they fit in middle-class jobs
People from working class backgrounds who are socially mobile and make it into middle class jobs are less likely to
education
How to Break Into the Elite
Why don’t working class graduates with good degrees get the best jobs?
Sociology on TV
Mary Berry Doffs Her Bonnet – and Legitimates the Class Structure (Again)
I’ve blogged about how Mary Berry’s uses her middle class cultural capital to maintain the class-order through demonising working class
education
Cultural Capital, Practical Intelligence and Success
Being an analytical genius is not necessarily enough to achieve success in life – it also helps if your parents
Social Theories
Bourdieu’s Structuration Theory
Bourdieu didn’t like the label ‘social theorist’ because he insisted that there was a fundamentally important relationship between empirical data,
Sociology on TV
The Apprentice Final Five and Class Inequality
The Apprentice – The Final Five demonstrates some of the subtle ways in which the class structure disadvantages those from working
Book summaries
The Hidden Privileges of Identity: On Being Middle Class
A summary of Steph Lawler’s ‘Sociological Perspectives on Identity’, chapter 7 During summer 2000 and in January 2001, there were