Higher,lowermiddle and class stereo type

Class & Status Stereotypes

Smokers

Rude

Tough

Unclean

Cheap clothes

Chavs

Large Family

Poor

DrugsSwearing

Cheap belongingsCommon

Definition of working class: People that work for their wages and often don’t own their own houses. Usually just have the necessities

Pub lovers

Working Class

Unprivileged

Middle Class

Traditional Family

Marriage

Detached house

Two cars

Respectable jobs

Modern

Home cooked meals

Definition of working class: Any class in the middle of the social circle. Non urban England.

Higher Class

RichLuxuries

Pretty/Attractive

Very well paid job

Nice cars

Big House

Swimming Pool

Leisure's

Nannies and cleaners

Devious

Holiday Homes

Nice clothes

Little dogsClassy

Snobby

Caviar

Where in TV programmes, you may find class and status

stereotypesHIGH CLASS

Footballers WivesAt Home With The Braithwaite's

The O.CThe Hills/ Laguna Beach/ The City

Gossip GirlLiving On The Edge

Desperate Housewives

MIDDLE CLASSHollyoaks

Eastenders Neighbours

Home & Away10 Simple Rules

FriendsScrubs

Gavin And Stacey

WORKING CLASSShameless

The Royale Family2 Pints of Lager and a packet of crisps

Eastenders (Minty, Dot)Coronation Street

The history of working classThe Working Class appeared, because traditional communities

needed to produce workers, as industrialisations production was growing to produce better standards of living.

Throughout the process cultural and political action was taken by the workers to create their own cultures and

positions within industrial society. Working class history is generally accepted to refer to ‘common’ English people.

ProletarianizationIn the late 18th century, under the influence of the

enlightenment, European society was going through change, and this could not change theGod’s Society Order. Wealthy members of thesesocieties created ideologies which blamed many of the problems of working-class people on the morals and ethics of the working class themselves such as alcoholics, lazy and unable to save money.

The History of Middle ClassThe term has several meanings, which are occasionally contradictory. Once it was defined as being an intermediate social class between the nobility and peasantry of Europe. The nobility owned country side whereas the peasants worked on it. Then a new bourgeois

arose around mercantile functions in the city, this term meant ‘town dwellers’ , they helped to drive the French revolution. Within capitalism the middle class were referred to

as the bourgeoisie. However the immiserisation and proletarianism of the bourgeoisie world and the growth of financial capitalism, Middle class then referred to the

combination as Labour aristocracy, Professionals and white collar workers.

High (upper) ClassOnce, in some culture, members of an upper class did not have to work for a living, as they would

be supported by the inheritance of investments from other members of the upper class. Upper class status derived from the social position of someone's family and not from one person’s achievements or wealth, reputation had a big part in this. A lot of the population that were classed ‘upper’ consisted of aristocrats, ruling families, titled people, and religious leaders, such as priests. These people were usually born into their status, and did not often move in and out of classes.

In many countries the term "upper class" was associated with hereditary land ownership and titles. Political power was often in the hands of the landowners in many pre-industrial societies (which was one of the causes of the French Revolution), despite there being no legal barriers to land ownership for other social classes. Power began to shift from upper-class landed families to the general population in the early modern age, leading to marital alliances between the two groups, providing the foundation for the modern upper classes in the West.