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Social Structures and Stratification

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this is the development of manual workers starting to climb into the middle class, therefore they begin to embrace habits learnt form the middle class, thus, starting to practice these habits in their behavior.

Is class still relevant?
According to Haralambos (2004), in some cases, social class is relevant to some people, even though it is slowly becoming a thing of the past. People argue that they use the class title they came through to separate themselves from other people that have different levels of wealth and power compared to them. Also, there is the argument that people achieve things more quickly or more effectively due to their social class background. However, the flip side to that is that people may not achieve the things they lust due their social class background.

New right has long established concepts, e.g. an individual having the right to defend for himself. According to Haralambos & Holburn (2009), this theory has the idea that a capitalist system in a society can resolve its own problems and that government involvement within a society is the prime reason there are things like unemployment and gender discrimination in employment, leading to the thought that a non-governmental influenced society can revolve these issues by itself. In addition, it affirms that the state shouldn’t be using its assets in order to aspire people financially, as people wouldn’t go and look for a job for example as they are already receiving a weekly income, e.g. Job Seekers Allowance. Therefore, this is seen as being biased to the rest of society due to it using hard earned money from individuals who are actually motivated (Haralabos...

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