SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Petite Bourgeoisie, Lumpenproletariat, False Consciousness

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Hilal Ozcetin

Document Summary

Social inequality is the long term existence of signiicant diferences in access to goods and services among social groups. Social straiicaion refers to a system by which a society ranks categories of people in a hierarchy. A trait of society- social factors that inluence u. Belief systems are oten ied to religious dogma. Gandhi opposed the caste system and it was reformed ater india gained independence from britain. Educaional and government insituions now have quotas to ensure equal access to all people. Karl marx describes class as being relaional in that it relects one"s relaion to the means of producion. Marx ideniied other sub classes in his work. Class in marx"s view would have an organic idenity, a shared sense of common membership and purpose. Part of this idenity would include a class consciousness: an awareness of what is in the best interests of one"s class. Marx believed that the bourgeoisie possessed class consciousness.