As time has passed by, class inequality has lost its utmost importance in contemporary Britain (Scase, 1992). It may not seem vital, but it is still prominent in today’s society and in everyone’s lives. The term Class if taken as a form of identity which is stuck onto every individual as a signpost, there is no way of getting rid of it nor escaping it. It has no ‘correct’ definition but it’s known as an inequality which reproduces and separates people into different categories (Crompton, 2008). Class is losing significance due to more opportunities being available, which allow social mobility to take place and this is one of the key reasons to why class is seen to be diminishing.
The report on ‘How fair is Britain’ (2010) claims that attitudes …show more content…
The imagery of how we portray class now has changed, therefore ‘class is not dead’ (Geoff, 2013:66) it’s just seen in a different way. ‘The Great British Survey’ was taken out and more than 161,000 people took part in the BBC Lab UK’s web survey, making this the largest study about social class ever undertaken in the UK. There were seven new types of class emerging from this survey, known Elite, Established middle class, Technical middle class, New affluent workers, Traditional working class, Emergent service workers, and Precariat. The introduction of new classes only means that the traditional class structure has changed over the years. Class still matters because it often feels as if it is the modern day truth of our identity; we cannot escape it (Dorling, 2014:454). The survey is based on cultural and economic factors to display the changes to how the class is distinguished today. Nowadays the poor are not like the poor back in the 19th century, they can afford items such as the latest phone models, laptops, houses etc.
The GBCS’s identification of an elite, a precariat and other fractions of less advantaged classes encourages us to reconsider how the UK has evolved from an industrial to a financial capital, dominated economy, life chances of the consequences, class-related social identities, and cultural change under contemporary capitalism. The survey conducted indicated changes in the class …show more content…
People may claim they are ‘middle class’, but they’re still lower than the elite. The gap between the working class and middle class is closing, but it’s going the opposite direction between the elite and middle class. Individuals may claim that class does not matter, but it will still be a form of identity which will continue to divide them into different groups. However, the British Class Survey does suggest that individuals who come from different social backgrounds demonstrate similar traits of another though the same lifestyle. Economic differences do not hold much significance in contemporary Britain, which may be the cause of the change in the class system. Without racism and gender, class wouldn’t have existed as these inequalities aid each other to continue to produce differences between
The report on ‘How fair is Britain’ (2010) claims that attitudes …show more content…
The imagery of how we portray class now has changed, therefore ‘class is not dead’ (Geoff, 2013:66) it’s just seen in a different way. ‘The Great British Survey’ was taken out and more than 161,000 people took part in the BBC Lab UK’s web survey, making this the largest study about social class ever undertaken in the UK. There were seven new types of class emerging from this survey, known Elite, Established middle class, Technical middle class, New affluent workers, Traditional working class, Emergent service workers, and Precariat. The introduction of new classes only means that the traditional class structure has changed over the years. Class still matters because it often feels as if it is the modern day truth of our identity; we cannot escape it (Dorling, 2014:454). The survey is based on cultural and economic factors to display the changes to how the class is distinguished today. Nowadays the poor are not like the poor back in the 19th century, they can afford items such as the latest phone models, laptops, houses etc.
The GBCS’s identification of an elite, a precariat and other fractions of less advantaged classes encourages us to reconsider how the UK has evolved from an industrial to a financial capital, dominated economy, life chances of the consequences, class-related social identities, and cultural change under contemporary capitalism. The survey conducted indicated changes in the class …show more content…
People may claim they are ‘middle class’, but they’re still lower than the elite. The gap between the working class and middle class is closing, but it’s going the opposite direction between the elite and middle class. Individuals may claim that class does not matter, but it will still be a form of identity which will continue to divide them into different groups. However, the British Class Survey does suggest that individuals who come from different social backgrounds demonstrate similar traits of another though the same lifestyle. Economic differences do not hold much significance in contemporary Britain, which may be the cause of the change in the class system. Without racism and gender, class wouldn’t have existed as these inequalities aid each other to continue to produce differences between