How does class define us?

阶级如何定义我们?

LSE IQ podcast

教育

2022-11-01

32 分钟
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Contributor(s): Professor Neil Cummins, Professor Sam Friedman, Sabrina Daniel | It examines how we wear and reveal our social class in English society today. Do accents really matter? Is it enough to imitate one supposed ‘social betters’ to achieve social mobility? What cost is there to the individual who changes their social status? Sue Windebank talks to an LSE Law student who reveals how she has overcome the challenges of being an asylum seeker and a care leaver to study law at the School. Professor Sam Friedman, a sociologist of class and inequality, discusses the arbitrariness of what is considered ‘high culture’. And economic historian Professor Neil Cummins reveals how class will probably determine who you marry.
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  • I have a bet on number seven.

  • I should be so happy if you would take it.

  • You'll enjoy the race ever so much more.

  • That's very kind of you.

  • His name is Dover.

  • Come on.

  • Come on Dover.

  • Come on.

  • Come on Dover.

  • Come on.

  • Come on Dover.

  • Move your bloomin' arse.

  • That was Audrey Hepburn playing Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady,

  • a musical based on the 1913 play Pygmalion written by one of the LSE founders George Bernard Shaw.

  • In the musical, the character Henry Higgins, a pompous phonetics professor,

  • makes a bet that he can transform Eliza from a cockney working-class flower girl into a member of English high society by giving her speech lessons.

  • The scene we've just heard and others show a number of comic blunders that Eliza makes as part of Higgins' Let's Face It!

  • misogynistic and classist project to make her a lady.

  • While the musical was set in Edwardian London,

  • does it still reflect how we wear and reveal our social class in English society today?