scholarly journals The Class of London 2012: Some Sociological Reflections on the Social Backgrounds of Team GB Athletes

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Smith ◽  
David Haycock ◽  
Nicola Hulme
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Elite Sport ◽  
Social Division ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Profiles ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Social Backgrounds

This rapid response article briefly examines one feature of the relationship between social class and elite sport: the social backgrounds of the Olympians who comprised Team GB (Great Britain) at the 2012 London Olympics Games, and especially their educational backgrounds, as a means of shedding sociological light on the relationship between elite sport and social class. It is claimed that, to a large degree, the class-related patterns evident in the social profiles of medal-winners are expressive of broader class inequalities in Britain. The roots of the inequalities in athletes’ backgrounds are to be found within the structure of the wider society, rather than in elite sport, which is perhaps usefully conceptualized as ‘epiphenomenal, a secondary set of social practices dependent on and reflecting more fundamental structures, values and processes’ ( Coalter 2013 : 18) beyond the levers of sports policy. It is concluded that class, together with other sources of social division, still matters and looking to the process of schooling and education, whilst largely ignoring the significance of wider inequalities, is likely to have a particularly limited impact on the stubborn persistence of inequalities in participation at all levels of sport, but particularly in elite sport.

Rules of address in Italy: a sociological survey

1975 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bates ◽  
Laura Benigni
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Address Forms ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractStudies of address forms have almost always concentrated on a single set of rules, as they would be used by one idealized speaker. We proposed instead to examine the use of address pronouns in Italy as a function of the classical sociological parameters of age, sex and social class. A modified version of the Brown and Gilman questionnaire was administered in interviews with 117 Italian adults. Results indicate a powerful age—class interaction in overall degree of formality. Young upper class Ss are by far the least formal of the social groups — a particularly interesting finding, since Brown and Gilman's original study was drawn entirely from this population. Lower class youth are the most formal, with older Ss falling in between. Most Italians are likely to expect to receive the same address form that they give; the only clearly functional non-reciprocal relationships involve differences in age rather than status. The relationship of the results to political measures are also discussed. Several issues are examined from the point of view of sociolinguistic ‘ideals’ tapped by the questionnaire, vs. actual behavior in social settings. (Address forms (T/V pronouns); social class, age, and sex differences; Italy (Rome).)

scholarly journals Codzienność w kryzysie

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-47
Author(s):  
Łukasz Rogowski ◽  
Radosław Skrobacki ◽  
Dorota Mroczkowska
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this article is to demonstrate the relationship between everyday life and special conditions seen in the context of the concept of crisis. The authors define everyday life and special conditions as two opposing ways of experiencing social life, but their differentiation does not depend on their content but rather on form and manner of their perception/realisation in everyday life. This differentiation is described on the basis of the example of the concept of crisis, understood as the breakdown of everyday life and the consequent creation of special conditions. Based on contemporary examples, concerning to a large degree the social consequences of the breakdown of the economy, the authors represent crisis as a moment of renegotiating the principles of social life, the disruption of the routines and habits of everyday life and the transition into the unpredictability and reflexivity of social practices which characterize such special conditions. Attention is paid in particular to the concept of power, which takes on new meanings in the sociology of everyday life, differing from its institutional meaning, closer rather to “everyday power” which is realised in the framework of direct interactions in daily life.

scholarly journals COCKNEY AND RECEIVED PRONUNCIATION ACCENTS AS SIGNIFICANT SOCIAL CLASS DETERMINERS IN MY FAIR LADY MOVIE

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ni Nyoman Sarmi
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
The Social ◽  
Received Pronunciation ◽  
Social Backgrounds

This research has main objectives to identify the Cockney and Received Pronunciation accents in My Fair Lady movie spoken by Eliza Doolittle and Professor Henry Higgins. Also, the objective is to find the correlation between the accents and the social backgrounds of both speakers. The result of this research shows that the accents indeed can indicate Eliza and Higgins’ social backgrounds. There are several characteristics that can distinct the Cockney and Received Pronunciation, such as H-dropping, Th- fronting, Diphthong shifting, and G- dropping. Eliza and Henry Higgins speak different accents because they come from different regions in London. Besides, from their accents, it is shown that Eliza  with her strong Cockney accent comes from lower class while Henry Higgins with his Received Pronunciation accent comes  from upper class. Furthermore, the correlation between accents and social backgrounds is also analyzed in this research. Key Words: Accent, Cockney, Received Pronunciation

scholarly journals La práctica de actividad física y deporte: una demanda sociológicamente construida = The practice of physical activity and sports: a socially constructed demand

2018 ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
María Martín Rodríguez ◽  
María Espada Mateos ◽  
David Moscoso Sánchez ◽  
José Emilio Jiménez-Beatty ◽  
José Antonio Santacruz Lozano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Age Group ◽  
National Plan ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Relationship

Resumen: En este artículo se analizan los datos de un estudio sobre las demandas sociales de actividad física y deporte entre las personas adultas en España. En concreto, se estudia la relación existente entre las diferencias sociológicas de los individuos, según el tamaño demográfico de su municipio de residencia, nivel de estudios y clase social, y las demandas de actividad física o deporte. Para ello, se ha llevado a cabo una investigación de carácter cuantitativo, consistente en la realización de una encuesta administrada de forma presencial a una muestra de 3.463 personas a escala nacional de una franja de edad de 30 a 64 años. La investigación fue financiada en el marco del Plan Nacional de I+D+i, del Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación del Gobierno de España. Los resultados muestran diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre los diversos tipos de demanda de actividad física o deporte, según el nivel de estudios finalizados y la clase social.Abstract:In this paper are analysed data from a study on the social demands of physical activity and sport among adults in Spain. Concretely, are studied the relationship between the sociological differences of individuals, according to the demographic size of their municipality of residence, level of education and social class, and the demands of physical activity or sport. In order to, a quantitative research has been carried out. This research consisted of the conduct of a survey administered presently to a sample of 3463 people to national scale in an age group of 30 to 64 years. The research was funded under the National Plan of I+D+i Plan of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain. The results show statistically significant differences between the diverse types of demand for physical activity or sport, according to the level of studies completed and social class.

scholarly journals Mothering for Schooling

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alison I. Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper I explore the relationship between mothering work in the family and the social organization of schooling. In particular, I address the ways in which mothers coordinate and contest the textually-organized discourse of schooling In contrast to other studies of the family/school relationship, this research began in the experience of mothers whose children attend primary school. The data were collected through interviews with mothers in two cities in Ontario. Mothering work constructs families that are differently connected to schools -- a connection strongly shaped by and constitutive of social class.

Retrenched Welfare Regimes Still Lessen Social Class Inequalities in Health

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-431 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Muntaner ◽  
O. Davis ◽  
K. McIsaack ◽  
L. Kokkinen ◽  
K. Shankardass ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Health It ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Inequalities In Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
Reported Health ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Eu

This article builds on recent work that has explored how welfare regimes moderate social class inequalities in health. It extends research to date by using longitudinal data from the EU-SILC (2003–2010) and examines how the relationship between social class and self-reported health and chronic conditions varies across 23 countries, which are split into five welfare regimes (Nordic, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern, Southern, and Continental). Our analysis finds that health across all classes was only worse in Eastern Europe (compared with the Nordic countries). In contrast, we find evidence that the social class gradient in both measures of health was significantly wider in the Anglo-Saxon and Southern regimes. We suggest that this evidence supports the notion that welfare regimes continue to explain differences in health according to social class location. We therefore argue that although downward pressures from globalization and neoliberalism have blurred welfare regime typologies, the Nordic model may continue to have an important mediating effect on class-based inequalities in health.

scholarly journals Class, Gender, and Rhoticity: The Social Stratification of Non-Prevocalic /r/ in Edinburgh Speech

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Dickson ◽  
Lauren Hall-Lew
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Analysis Of Variation ◽  
Middle Aged Adults ◽  
The Relationship

Despite the prominence of socioeconomic status as a factor in models of English variation, few studies have explicitly considered speakers whose social class status changed over their lifetime. This paper presents an auditory and acoustic analysis of variation in non-prevocalic /r/ among middle-aged adults from Edinburgh, Scotland. The speakers represent three groups: the Established Middle Class (EMC) and the Working Class (WC), both of which are characterized as socioeconomically non-mobile, and a third group we call the New Middle Class (NMC), comprising individuals born to working-class families and living middle-class lives at the time of data collection. The results demonstrate that realizations of /r/ have a significant correlation with socioeconomic status, and that the effect of class further interacts with gender. NMC speakers demonstrate the highest level of rhoticity of all three groups. In contrast, WC men show extensive derhoticization and deletion, while WC women show patterns of rhoticity that are more comparable to the NMC women. The EMC speakers show more non-rhoticity than either the NMC speakers or the WC women. A consideration of the indexical value of weak rhoticity highlights the need for more robust phonetic measures distinguishing non-rhoticity from derhoticization, and to that end we consider the cue of post-vocalic frication. Overall, the results point to the need to conceptualize socioeconomic status as potentially fluid and changeable across the lifespan, thereby improving models of the relationship between social class and linguistic variation.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Relationship Between Socio-Economic Level and Severity of Emergency

2020 ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
Oriol Yuguero Torres ◽  
Noemí Espies ◽  
Queralt Sans ◽  
Silvia Tormo ◽  
Carme Bret ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Explanatory Variable ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lower Social Class ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Triage Level

Background; Social Class has shown relation with admissions at Emergency Departments. To assess whether there is a relationship between the level of triage and the social class of patients who attend the emergency department and whether there are other variables that can modulate this association. Methods Observational study with 1000 patients was carried out between May and July 2018 in the Emergency Department of the University Hospital Arnau de Vilanova in Lleida. Sociodemographic variables such as age, gender, country of origin and marital status were analyzed. The triage level and the main explanatory variable was social class. Social class was calculated based on the CSO-SEE 2012 scale. Results 49.4% were male and the average age was 51.7 years. Most of the patients (66.6%) attended the emergency department under their own volition and the most common triage levels were level III or Emergency (45%). There is a significant relationship between age and triage level. The younger patients had a lower triage level (p <0.001). The percentage of patients with lower social class who attended the emergency department for minor reasons was 42% higher compared to the rest of the patients (RR = 1.42; 1.21-1.67 95% CI, p <0.001). Conclusions; Patients with a lower socioeconomic class go to the Emergency Department for less serious pathologies.

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