The British class system
By Katrine, Freja, Kristina and Anne
So close and yet so far
Coal miners strike
- Five main groups of social classes
- Income, employees and education
- Seven main groups of social classes
- The cultural, social and economic capital
- What does England have in common with Denmark?
- Education, qualifications and a wide social network
Sum up
British Class Survey
- The defining of class
- Old class system vs new class system
The coal miner strike
A Class-ridden country
- The coal miners strike - 1984-1985
- Strike about coal miners
- Privatising the mines
- Margaret Hilda Thatcher 1925 – 2013
- "Less state and more privatization"
- One of her biggest obstacles was the Coal miner strike.
- Billy Elliot and the class system
- Summary of Billy Elliot
- Billy Elliot and the class system
- Billy Elliot and the strike
- The elite:
- high economic, social, cultural capital
- The technical middle class:
- high economic and social capital
- few contacts
- low cultural capital
- Established middle class:
- high economic and social capital
- a rising culture
- mediocre contacts
- Working class:
- low income
- low economic capital.
- few contacts
- a low highbrow cultural capital
- Working class —> Medicore jobs —> do not retrain
- Working class —> Less money to pay fees
- Working class —> Medicore jobs —> do not retrain
- Parents´social class and background —> your own adult skills