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Is social class the most important factor that determines voting behaviour in Britain?
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Is social class the most important factor that determines voting behaviour in Britain? Social class is one of the factors that affect the political culture of a country. This is the opinions, attitudes and beliefs, which shape political behaviour. A country's political culture consists of the whole citizenry's collective attitudes to the political system and their role in it. Both the country's political culture and social class values are changing. These are influencing the change in voting behaviour experienced in the past few years. In the Oxford English Dictionary, class is defined as "a division or order of society according to status; a rank or grade of society", but this is not what Marx meant by class and Weber specifically distinguished class from status. Despite this, it is the everyday meaning of class and this therefore causes confusion as the many different interpretations are mixed up and combined. In reality,...
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