Indholdsfortegnelse
1. Individually:
a. Gaining knowledge:
b. Comprehension:
c. Communicating knowledge:
d. Hand in your assignment on Lectio under “Opgaver” to avoid being marked absent (“fravær”):
TV-series Trailers:
- Upstairs and Downstairs:
- Downton Abbey:
What is the British class system?
Five main groups in the British class system
- Lower class
- Working class
- Middle class
- Upper class
- Aristocrats
- How do people fit into each category?
- The class system in everyday life
1. According to the article, what makes it difficult to explain the British class system, even for Brits?
2. How did the Industrial Revolution impact the traditional British class system?
3. What was the primary factor influencing social status before the Industrial Revolution, according to the text?
4. How is the term "chav" used in the article?
5. Which class category includes shop owners, white-collar professionals, teachers, journalists, and nurses?
6. What is the term used for individuals with titles like lords or barons, including the royal family, in the article?
7. What factors determine how people fit into each category in the British class system?
The seven social classes of 21st century Britain - where do you fit in?
- The seven social classes
- The elite are more obsessed with class than anyone else
- The elites are concentrated around London and the South of England
1. What are the results in this article based on?
2. Who are 1) the most and 2) the least “obsessed with class” when we look at the proportion of participants from the group to complete the survey?
3. According to the text, what is the distinctive feature of the "Technical Middle Class"?
4. What characterizes the "Traditional Working Class" according to the article?
5. Which social group is described as the "poorest and most deprived" in the text?
6. What percentage of the population is estimated to be in the "Elite" social class?
7. According to the map in the article, where are the concentrations of the "Elite" social class primarily located?
8. What does the table in the article suggest about wages and family background?
9. What does the graph in the article reveal about the relationship between university education and social class?
Task c: Communicating knowledge:
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Uddrag
Whether you are a lord, a “toff” or just the king of your own middle-class kingdom, everyone in the UK fits into the class system but explaining the British class system is a hard thing to do even for a Brit.
One reason for this is that moving from one class to another is increasingly possible, but the complication is that there are some unwritten rules that mean you can be considered upper class by some people and not by others!
Before the Industrial Revolution British society was divided into groups depending on what kind of family you were born into, which then influenced their occupation, social status and political influence.
However, this has changed, in part, due to more people gaining an education, especially at univ ersity level.
Having said that, a large percentage of people in the UK do prescribe to the class system, which is broadly broken down into five main groups.
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However, not all people in the South are classed as elite. Towns like Swindon, Slough and Crawley have relatively low proportions of elites, but with wealthy clusters not far away.
As we go further North, and into Wales and Ireland, the clusters become pink, which means that less people there are classed as elite.
This isn't that surprising - but it is striking to see the difference on a map.
The elite are more likely to have gone to university than most - but so are emergent service workers.
The young and cultured, but financially insecure emergent service workers are very likely to have gone to university.
They have a higher proportion of graduates in their class than any of the others, except those at the very top of society.
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