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Class Ambivalence and Identity

   

Added on  2020-05-28

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Running head: CRITICAL ANALYSISCritical AnalysisName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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1CRITICAL ANALYSISSocial Class or the class division in the society has a huge influence on the lives of theindividuals. The class in which an individual belongs to at times determines the future of thatindividual. There are wide gaps in opportunities existing between the various classes in thesociety. According to Pierre Bourdieu, the prominent French sociologist different social classeshas different kinds of cultural systems and social ideologies he called that as “ Habitus”, he alsomentioned that the upper class people have “Cultural Capital” which indicates towards the socialassets which the people belonging to the upper classes have like intellect, dressing sense,education and manner of speaking. In the current scenario, as well the matter of class identity hasattracted a huge amount of interest. Some of the important recent works mentions that apart fromthe general idea of class ambivalence in sociology class ambivalence also includes the features ofgender, ethnicity as well the area in which the individuals grow up. The works of Savage,Bagnall and Longhurst portray that the individuals are reluctant to accept the division of socialclass when it comes to refer it to themselves but they accept that the class concept exists in thesociety (Payne and Grew 2005). To understand the concept of Class Ambivalence and how it influences the individualidentity it is important to understand the meaning of Class itself and what role it plays in thesociety and how it impacts the identity of an individual. According to Karl Marx the “class”depended on the relationship of an individual with the means of production in the society in otherwords, the economic position of an individual in the society determined his class. There are onlytwo divisions in the society according to his theory the proletariat or the working class and thebourgeoisie who own the means of production. Webber’s theory is also somewhat close to that ofMarx he also said that the class of individual depended on the individual’s economic position inthe society but the status of an individual was determined by the individual’s prestige and power
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