British Working Class

The concept of class society has been rooted in the history of The United Kingdom for a very long time. In fact, it can be considered as one of the basic characteristic features of the country. There have always been all sorts of opinions on what class society exactly means, how many classes there exist, based on what attributes are people of British society divided into those classes or even, what class is as such. All these themes are encompassed in the thesis title: The Depiction of Working Class in the United Kingdom in Two Selected Films. Concretely, working class attributes such as occupation, accent, housing, education and leisure were chosen for the purpose of the thesis. As it was mentioned, these attributes are compared and analysed
The first chapter focuses on explaining elementary notions, for instance, class, class consciousness, classless society and to provide a brief overview of different types of division of people into classes, for example, three stratum model or The Great British Class Survey. The second chapter is dedicated entirely to working class itself. A short history of this class is provided, as well as further elaboration on different aspects of working class. Finally, a brief summary of the two films, as well as distinguishing characteristics of working class put into analysis and comparison are to be found in the third chapter of the thesis.
All the sources used throughout the whole process of writing of this thesis are divided into primary and secondary sources. Two films (Look Back in Anger and Fish Tank) are primary sources. On the other side, printed books, eBooks, PDF articles, web pages, as well as materials studied during the preparation for this thesis, although not used in the thesis, are secondary sources.
The thesis can find its use in different academic areas. It can serve as a means to broaden one's knowledge about class or working class specifically, or it can be used as a support or monographic source for diploma thesis or dissertation