Social Class Identity

Family:

• Bernstein - elabroated code is more extensive vocabulary and restricted code is slang

• Charles Muarry - single parent families are not socialised correctly and are socialised into a “dependency culture”

Education:

• Diane Reay(1988) - mothers make cultural capital work for their children.

• Children from higher social classes achieve better educational outcomes

Media:

• Positive representations of middle and upper class people

• Working class is demonised in the media