Understanding Culture and Society Post 4

This week we talked all about Social Class and we were also given our next assignment.
First, let's talk about scoial class. The first one Caroline brought up was the Three Stratum Model of Stratification. This is the one we here more about in our daily lives. It's the most used by everyone because we is simple to follow. You have your 3 classes. Upper Class, Middle Class and Lower Class. The definition of these are as follows:
Upper Class: The wealthy owners of production.
Middle Class: Professional Workers/Knowledgeable workers. They are also known as 'White Collar'.
Lower Class:  People dependent on their hourly minimal wages. Also know as 'Blue Collar'.
These are of course very basic explanations.
This is the example I have drawn up. Think of Adobe Photoshop. Upper Class would be the owners of the company and creators of the software. Middle Class would be the Graphic Designers using the software for their companies. Lower class would be the ones who illegally downloaded the software to make internet memes. All of this, of course, would be taken with the smallest grain of salt.
Max Weber believed in Social Mobility, which is the idea that everyone can, in one way of another, get out of their social class and move up in the world.
Moving on, you have the Marxist Theory by Karl Marx. We learned all about this last year as it was our main focus. Class was split into two groups. Bourgeoisie, the owners of the means of production, and Proletariat, workers of production.
Then there is Weberian Theory which we will be getting into later.
We were talking about TV Shows and movies in popular Culture that represent class as a high focus.
Boardwalk Empire & Downton Abbey certainly use class as a power struggle,
MacBeth vs The Field. Both have an incredibly similar story, though one is upper and the other is lower class.
Football vs Rugby. A student in class said "Football is a posh sport played by scumbags and Rugby is a scumbag sport played by posh people." I couldn't ever understand why rugby is a posh sport.
Hunger Games - I could write an entire essay on that.
Then of course, X Factor. Poverty Porn - Dirt we like to watch.
I'll leave it at that this week. I think I've gone way over the 300 words limit.