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.
Questions about the Class Schemes poster
- 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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