SOCY 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Read Code, Cultural Capital, Social Capital

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 227
• Professor: Ryan Martin

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Socy227 tutorial 3: savage et all state that the goldthorpe model has been influentially but suffers from a number of problems. Communicate these problems and explain why savage et al. thing the goldthorpe model misses key aspects of social class. Model: what is describes as the gold standard of class and stratification. Through the most recent studies of sociology. Separated class into 6 fold unskilled manual laborers second phase: 1970. Seven classes according to individuals employment positions added a new position. Defined seven classes and more of a focus on economic capitol of the individual and how it modeled their class critique. Employment relations as defined as class relations no account of social capital: used a small sample size for research, wasn"t analytical data, only surgery"s, missed a lot of information and didn"t include elites. Said that you could drive class from measures of unemployment.