Changes To The Class Structure:underclass Debate

Front 1

murray

Back 1

"the underclass is characterised by family instability, violent crime, drug abuse, dropping out of employment and 'scrounging' off the state"

Front 2

field

Back 2

when society is in a recession, there is more evidence of an underclass emerging eg the thatcher era

Front 3

saunders

Back 3

a group of people who are generally poor, unqualified and irregularly or never employed. this underclass is disproportionately recruited today from among Afro-Caribbeans, people living in the north, those who are trapped in run-down council estates or in single parent families

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giddens

Back 4

blames the economic system for creating an underclass

Front 5

oscar lewis

Back 5

by the time children are 6 or 7 they have usually absorbed the basic values and attitudes of their subculture and are psychologically geared to take full advantage of any opportunities which may occur in their lifetime

Front 6

marshland

Back 6

welfare benefits create an underclass as people do not need to look after themselves

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dahrendorf

Back 7

structureal factors ef employment and recession can be to blamed, but so can cultural factors. he argues that the longer that people remain in the underclass the more likely it is that they will assimilate into its cultural values. they will become dependants on state benefits and handouts and slowly lose any discipline or motivation