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GCSE Sociology · key term
A sense of shared interests and mutual support among people in the same social class.
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Paper 1, Paper 2
Revise: Affluent Workers Revisited by DevineWorkers might join with their workmates to improve wages and working conditions, but do so as self-interested individuals rather than out of class solidarity. This is instrumental collectivism: acting together for personal benefit, rather than to change society for the wider working class. Collective action alone therefore does not tell us what motivates the people involved.
Component 2
A sense of shared interests and mutual support among members of the same social class.
Revise: Social Class InfluencesThe embourgeoisement thesis argued that prosperity encouraged working-class people to adopt middle-class lifestyles and attitudes. Their concerns would become more individualistic and centred on their own family's comfort, weakening wider working-class solidarity.
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