Social Class in Uk
Social Class in UK
The term “social class” is in UK is a controversial issue,David J Lee said “ The use of the concept class in sociology has come under attack ”, which having many definitions. And as the tile shows, there are even disagreements over its very existence. Before we get into the details, at least, let us look at one definition. “Social class “is a set of concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories(Grant, J. Andrew (2001). Encyclopedia of International Political Economy ).British society had social class since the beginning of the history, and the issue of social class was thoroughly examined after the industrial revolution, and the acknowledgement of its existence has helped UK to experience significant changes, especially after the WWII .The expansion of higher education and home-ownership, and most importantly the change of economic, from manufacturing to a services-dominated economy, has played huge part in the translation. In this essay, I first outlined the main theories of social class, which includes functionalism, Marxism and Weber’s understands of social class, then examined the demographic of social structure in UK within this 300years. After that i analyzed the barriers that preventing the equality, then concluded that social class still exists but do not shows in the surface. It is how we define “social class” that influences how we see the issue of whether UK has social class or not. There is a tendency to deney, Holton and Turner suggest that many sociologist deny the division in morden society. And there are other seasons for the denial of the concept of social class. In Calvert 's book The Concept of Class, which claims that because the term 'class ' has a long history of conflicting usages, the concept is no longer valid in social research. So how should we treat the term “social
The term “social class” is in UK is a controversial issue,David J Lee said “ The use of the concept class in sociology has come under attack ”, which having many definitions. And as the tile shows, there are even disagreements over its very existence. Before we get into the details, at least, let us look at one definition. “Social class “is a set of concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories(Grant, J. Andrew (2001). Encyclopedia of International Political Economy ).British society had social class since the beginning of the history, and the issue of social class was thoroughly examined after the industrial revolution, and the acknowledgement of its existence has helped UK to experience significant changes, especially after the WWII .The expansion of higher education and home-ownership, and most importantly the change of economic, from manufacturing to a services-dominated economy, has played huge part in the translation. In this essay, I first outlined the main theories of social class, which includes functionalism, Marxism and Weber’s understands of social class, then examined the demographic of social structure in UK within this 300years. After that i analyzed the barriers that preventing the equality, then concluded that social class still exists but do not shows in the surface. It is how we define “social class” that influences how we see the issue of whether UK has social class or not. There is a tendency to deney, Holton and Turner suggest that many sociologist deny the division in morden society. And there are other seasons for the denial of the concept of social class. In Calvert 's book The Concept of Class, which claims that because the term 'class ' has a long history of conflicting usages, the concept is no longer valid in social research. So how should we treat the term “social