Class SchemesHow the main schemes cut the population, and what each is built to explain.SociologyDifferent schemes answer different questions.SchemeBasisBuilt to explainMarxianOwnership of productionExploitation, conflictWeberianMarket and work situationLife chancesGoldthorpe / EGPEmployment relationsMobility, contractsOccupational scalesJob prestige or payRanking, gradientsBourdieu-derivedEconomic plus culturalTaste, closureNo scheme is neutral. Classifying by occupation also decides howunpaid, informal and retired lives are counted.Class Schemeslearnposters.com
Class Schemes — printable law & society wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the Class Schemes poster

A 5-row table: Scheme · Basis · Built to explain.

Different schemes answer different questions.

No scheme is neutral. Classifying by occupation also decides how unpaid, informal and retired lives are counted.

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What’s on the Class Schemes poster?
A 5-row table: Scheme · Basis · Built to explain. Different schemes answer different questions. Marxian — Ownership of production — Exploitation, conflict; Weberian — Market and work situation — Life chances; Goldthorpe / EGP — Employment relations — Mobility, contracts; Occupational scales — Job prestige or pay — Ranking, gradients; Bourdieu-derived — Economic plus cultural — Taste, closure. No scheme is neutral. Classifying by occupation also decides how unpaid, informal and retired lives are counted.
Who is the Class Schemes poster for?
Class Schemes belongs to the Sociology section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning stratification & inequality can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Class Schemes poster?
When a study's class categories need reading rather than accepting. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Class Schemes belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Class Schemes?
Cultural Capital at Work, Audit & Correspondence Tests and The Gender Pay Gap sit alongside Class Schemes in the Sociology section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Cultural Capital at WorkAudit & Correspondence TestsThe Gender Pay Gap
Is the Class Schemes poster free to download and print?
Yes. Class Schemes downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Sociology section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Class Schemes poster print at?
Class Schemes is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Class Schemes loses nothing.Printing guide

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