higher,lowermiddle and class stereo type
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Class & Status Stereotypes
Smokers
Rude
Tough
Unclean
Cheap clothes
Chavs
Large Family
Poor
DrugsSwearing
Cheap belongingsCommon
Definition of working class: People that work for their wages and often don’t own their own houses. Usually just have the necessities
Pub lovers
Working Class
Unprivileged
Middle Class
Traditional Family
Marriage
Detached house
Two cars
Respectable jobs
Modern
Home cooked meals
Definition of working class: Any class in the middle of the social circle. Non urban England.
Higher Class
RichLuxuries
Pretty/Attractive
Very well paid job
Nice cars
Big House
Swimming Pool
Leisure's
Nannies and cleaners
Devious
Holiday Homes
Nice clothes
Little dogsClassy
Snobby
Caviar
Where in TV programmes, you may find class and status
stereotypesHIGH CLASS
Footballers WivesAt Home With The Braithwaite's
The O.CThe Hills/ Laguna Beach/ The City
Gossip GirlLiving On The Edge
Desperate Housewives
MIDDLE CLASSHollyoaks
Eastenders Neighbours
Home & Away10 Simple Rules
FriendsScrubs
Gavin And Stacey
WORKING CLASSShameless
The Royale Family2 Pints of Lager and a packet of crisps
Eastenders (Minty, Dot)Coronation Street
The history of working classThe Working Class appeared, because traditional communities
needed to produce workers, as industrialisations production was growing to produce better standards of living.
Throughout the process cultural and political action was taken by the workers to create their own cultures and
positions within industrial society. Working class history is generally accepted to refer to ‘common’ English people.
ProletarianizationIn the late 18th century, under the influence of the
enlightenment, European society was going through change, and this could not change theGod’s Society Order. Wealthy members of thesesocieties created ideologies which blamed many of the problems of working-class people on the morals and ethics of the working class themselves such as alcoholics, lazy and unable to save money.
The History of Middle ClassThe term has several meanings, which are occasionally contradictory. Once it was defined as being an intermediate social class between the nobility and peasantry of Europe. The nobility owned country side whereas the peasants worked on it. Then a new bourgeois
arose around mercantile functions in the city, this term meant ‘town dwellers’ , they helped to drive the French revolution. Within capitalism the middle class were referred to
as the bourgeoisie. However the immiserisation and proletarianism of the bourgeoisie world and the growth of financial capitalism, Middle class then referred to the
combination as Labour aristocracy, Professionals and white collar workers.
High (upper) ClassOnce, in some culture, members of an upper class did not have to work for a living, as they would
be supported by the inheritance of investments from other members of the upper class. Upper class status derived from the social position of someone's family and not from one person’s achievements or wealth, reputation had a big part in this. A lot of the population that were classed ‘upper’ consisted of aristocrats, ruling families, titled people, and religious leaders, such as priests. These people were usually born into their status, and did not often move in and out of classes.
In many countries the term "upper class" was associated with hereditary land ownership and titles. Political power was often in the hands of the landowners in many pre-industrial societies (which was one of the causes of the French Revolution), despite there being no legal barriers to land ownership for other social classes. Power began to shift from upper-class landed families to the general population in the early modern age, leading to marital alliances between the two groups, providing the foundation for the modern upper classes in the West.