Class and Status
Social Class
A status hierarchy in which individuals and groups are classified on the basis of esteem and prestige acquired mainly through economic success and accumulation of wealth. Social class may also refer to any particular level in such a hierarchy.
Four common social classes informally recognized in many societies are:
(1) Upper class,
(2) Middle class,
(3) Working class, and
(4) Lower class.
A status hierarchy in which individuals and groups are classified on the basis of esteem and prestige acquired mainly through economic success and accumulation of wealth. Social class may also refer to any particular level in such a hierarchy.
Four common social classes informally recognized in many societies are:
(1) Upper class,
(2) Middle class,
(3) Working class, and
(4) Lower class.
Social Status
Status is different to class. Social Status is a person's standing or importance in relation to other people within a society.
If you get “class and status” as an issue in the exam, you should be thinking about the following things when watching the clip:
- Can I identify what class/status characters are?
- Are people from different classes or of different statuses shown as having different interests, personalities, attitudes, behaviours? If so, how?
- Is their class/status represented as being important in their life?
- Are people from particular classes/statuses represented as being better, more powerful, than others?
- Are people from particular classes/ statuses represented as being abnormal /weaker/ more pathetic than others?
- How do other characters in the clip treat the characters from different classes or of different statuses?
- What is the message the clip is trying to portray about class/status?
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