SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Social Inequality, Meritocracy, Petite Bourgeoisie
10 Aug 2016
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Difference between value of labour and value of things they make is counted as profits. Under capitalism work is a means to an end. People lose sights of what is human labour. Prevents us key attributes in common, alienated from human essence. We turn into lower animals by not using creativity. Working people"s culture is based on performing animal functions. Marxist class analysis: don"t need to be a marxist to use this analysis. Ideological struggle between capitalism and socialism is part of stratifications theory. Incomes have been stagnant, life is more expensive people still believe they are middle class. This reflects the influence of american culture and sociology. Middle class isn"t a class it"s a status; we live in a classless society. Class doesn"t not mean status however we use them interchangeably. Use status to rank people with power, privileges, responsibilities etc Before capitalism, you wouldn"t find 80% of people saying they came from the same class.
