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'Assess sociological explanations of changes to the class structure
- Essay length: 1407 words
- Submitted: 17/02/2011
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Marked by teacher:
Lesley Clark
Teacher essay summary
This is a tricky essay as it asks you to outline the changes to the class structure, and then explain them, and then assess each explanation. The last of these areas is least well addressed as there could be more assessment of each explanation whereas at present they sit rather separately to each other. The candidate has done really well to cover so much material, and use perspectives, concepts and theory. Finally, perhaps the candidate needs to address the growth of a perceived 'underclass' and the debate surrounding their emergence (real or imagined)
Marked by teacher Lesley Clark 27/02/2012
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'Assess sociological explanations of changes to the class structure.'
Social classes are groups of people who share a similar economic position; which is based on a person's occupation, income and ownership of wealth. People in the same social class can be identified by having similar levels of education, status (prestige), lifestyle (for example living standard or consumer goods e.g. plasma TV 52' inch) and power. Traditionally the UK's class structure is associated with three-levels: the upper class, the middle class and the working class. However sociologists have noticed a change in this type of class structure and have suggested that the UK is moving away from this class formation. In this essay I am going to outline the traditional class structure (briefly) and talk about the various changes that have occurred to each social class; then I will seek to critically examine a number of sociological explanations for the changes to the class structure.
The tri-level traditional class structure is comprised of: the upper class, which is the smallest of the social classes and consists of the crème de la crème of society e.g. Aristocracy or also named the "blue bloods". These members are usually the wealthiest in
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MbT essay summary
This is a tricky essay as it asks you to outline the changes to the class structure, and then explain them, and then assess each explanation. The last of these areas is least well addressed as there could be more assessment of each explanation whereas at present they sit rather separately to each other. The candidate has done really well to cover so much material, and use perspectives, concepts and theory. Finally, perhaps the candidate needs to address the growth of a perceived 'underclass' and the debate surrounding their emergence (real or imagined)
