Social Class Structure Quiz 2

According to Anthony Giddens, what determines class position?

• Educational credentials

• Market capacity

• Labour power

• Capital ownership

According to Erik-Olin Wright, what are the contradictory class locations based on?

• Organisational assets

• Skills/credentials

• Ownership of economic resources

• All of the above

According to Gary Runciman, what are the 3 sources of economic power?

• Ownership, control of labour, marketability

• Capital ownership, educational credentials, labour power

• Market capacity, organisational assets, skills/credentials

• Deriving from control of labour or capital

What is the estimated size of the upper middle class according to Gary Runciman?

• 20%

• 15%

• 30%

• <10%

What types of capital does Bourdieu discuss?

• Social, cultural, financial

• Economic, wealth, cultural

• Symbolic, state, slay

• Social, Economic, cultural

Why was the Surrey Occupational Class Schema made?

• Hope-Goldthorpe scale was not widely used

• Hope-Goldthorpe had a patriarchal bias

• Other scales were outdated

• Other scales were too complex

Why was the Hope-Goldthorpe scale seen as patriarchal?

• It failed to consider that men may not want to work

• It called women ugly

• It was based on the occupation of the head of the household

• None of the above

What is the full name of the NS-SEC?

• National Social Socio-Economic Classification

• National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification

• National Statistics Socio-Economic Categorisation

• Nation-wide Statistics Socio-Economic Classification

What were considered strengths of the NS-SEC?

• Women were considered as wage earners

• The scale was based on occupation

• It divided on lines other than manual and non-manual labour

• It obscured the differences of status and earning power

What percentage of the working population falls under the category of lower supervisory, craft and related occupations according to NS-SEC?

• 23.5%

• 18.6%

• 14%

• 9.8%