Family : Marshall

• -The notion of 'false class consciousness' has been undermined by surveys such as those conducted by Marshall et al. (1988), and the government in the form of the British Social Attitudes survey (Jowell et al. 1995). The British Social Attitudes survey found that 69 per cent of people thought their opportunities were influenced by their social class a great deal' or 'quite a lot'.
• -Marshall argued that over 70 per cent of his survey sample believed that social class was an inevitable feature of British society and over 50 per cent felt that class conflict existed in the UK between a ruling class that monopolised economic and political power and a lower class that could do little to change its position. Marshall noted that most people were aware of social injustices, especially relating to inequalities in the distribution of wealth and income, but felt there was little they could do practically to bring about more equality.
• -(Marshall) . However, in support of the concept of ideology, Charlesworth's (2000) study of working-class people in Rotherham blames the educational system for this indifference and cynicism. He argues that the working-class experience of education results in them devaluing themselves and restricting their ambitions to

  "being disappointed' in life.