Social ClassAmelia Bird

Working Class

Skilled Working ClassStereotype:• Blue Collar Jobs • Traditionally industry

• E.g. Hairdresser, Tattoo Artist

Unskilled Working ClassStereotype:• Lower Incomes• Unskilled • Chavs

• E.g. Cleaner

Consisting of people who work for wages, especially low wages, including unskilled and semiskilled labourers and their families.

Middle Class

Upper Middle ClassStereotype:• Educated• Prestigious Public Schools• Civil Servants

• E.g. Doctors, Army Officers.

Lower Middle ClassStereotype:• People With Degrees• Less Prestigious Universities• Running Local Businesses • Junior/Middle Management • E.g. Teacher

People in the middle of a societal hierarchy. The middle class is the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the working class and upper class.

Upper Class

Upper Class Stereotype:• Educated• Very Small amount in Britain • Inherit • Wealthy

The social group that has the highest status in society composed of the wealthiest members

Examples

Downtown Abbey • The upper class are shown as wealthy because they live in a big house with

lots of material things and the lower class are just working there.

• It is also shown through costume, the lower class are in maid uniforms where as the upper class are wearing big dresses with jewellery or suits with ties.

• There is also the boss of the lower class (the house keeper) who is portrayed as more snobby than the upper class. This goes against the stereotype.

• Also the dialogue between the upper and lower class is different. The upper class talk more posh and pronounce everything properly, whereas the lower class talk less proper.

Shameless • Shameless shows the unskilled working class and under class.

• This is because most of the characters live of benefits.

• The characters also look stereotypically as if they are on benefits through their costumes as they are wearing dirty, cheap looking clothes.

• As well as this, mise en scene shows them as under class because they are all smoking and drinking beer and this shows them as unclassy.

• The characters in Shameless conform to hegemony because they the characters allfollow the common stereotypes of unskilledworking class people or under classpeople.

Who Has The Power?

Power• Power increases the higher your class. The Dominant

characters in TV shows tend to be in the upper class. Therefore making the working class and under class the subordinate characters.

Under Class

Working Class

Middle Class

Upper Class