Roberts - Rich fix salaries and have employment incentives, 2012 High Pay Centre - pay of chief executives of the 100 largest companies on the London Stock Exchange had risen by 49 per cent during the previous year, compared with average increases of less than 3 per cent for their employees, Scott - Old boys network - 'elite self recruitment' employ those who are like them, Goldthorpe - 1-2-4 rule...more well off are more likely to be socially mobile, Willis - Working class kids only get working class jobs due to culture and not working hard at school​, Savage - Great British Class Survey - jobs linked to class, Dodd and Dodd - Working class supportive community in Eastenders does not reflect reality, Newman - very few sitcoms, films, dramas and other media, that realistically portray working-class people. He points out that they are often portrayed in a negative light, Price - TV programmes that examine the life of the poorest in society, such as ‘Benefits Street’, as ‘Poverty Porn’, Reiner - contemporary representations of people with wealth show them as examples of success within a meritocratic society., Glennon and Butsch - middle class representation and found they are over-represented in TV whereas the working class are under-represented, Davis and Moore - Meritocracy - talented are rewarded, Parsons - Social stratification and hierarchy is really important because it leads to value consensus and social order, Durkheim - Some degree of inequality is required to motivate individuals to fill different positions within the society, Merton - Inequality is an example of a ‘latent function’ –which exists because even though it is undesirable, it is functional for a part of the social system (the manifest function).,

Class workplace and media trends and Functionalist explanation

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