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“Social class is not the only factor in voting behaviour but it remains the most significant.”
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"Social class is not the only factor in voting behaviour but it remains the most significant." Discuss. Sociologists explain social class as "expressive voting". When we grow up we associate ourselves with a particular group in society, and we tend to behave in a way that reflects this socialization, voting branches out into one of these, for example working class people have the socialistic views that Labour is the party that best represents the working class. Therefore they vote accordingly. The same is said for middle class voters, they vote for the Conservative party, on the basis that they best represent the middle class. Ivor Crewe argues in favour of social class being the most important factor of voting. However there are more effecting factors to voting. Embourgeoisement was a term coined to explain why some of the working class where voting for the Conservative party, this was down to the...
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