Class and Identity

• What is social class

  Way of categorising people based on their socio-economic background and factors such as occupation,wealth,cultural values and tastes
• Who are the Working Class

  .those individuals engaged in manual work,with low levels of educational achievement

  .do work like heavy labour and factor based work (blue colour jobs)

  .associated with strong kinship networks to ‘low brow‘ cultural tastes like football games,chippy
• Who are the Middle Class

  .individuals engaged in non-manual labour,with higher levels of educational achievements

  .jobs include doctors,lawyers …(white collar jobs)

  .also defined through cultural tastes ,aspirations and social contacts