Lesson Objective: To investigate and evaluate changes in the UK class structure

Read and take notes then prepare answers for the following synoptic questions
1. Using your knowledge of Power and Politics evaluate the post modernist notion that the Ruling class has disintegrated.
2. Using your knowledge of education, families and health explain how social class remains an importanmt factor in determining life chances.
3. Using your knowledge of Power and Politics evaluate the embourgeoisement theory
4. Using your knowledge of sociological theories (Marxism, post modernism, New Right, functionalism etc.) Evaluate sociological explanations of changes in the UK class structure in the last 50 years