SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Inequality, Social Stratification, Class Consciousness
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Low class, middle class, and high class, the separation of social groups based upon factors such as wealth, prestige and class. Slavery the ownership of one person by another person. Caste groups based on family, no chance to move around from caste to caste. Clan extended family, can intermarriage to build ties. Class groups of people based on their achievements or failures. People"s place in society is determined by their connection to the means of production, you either make things (proletariat), or own the factory that employs the people who make things (bourgeoisie). Class consciousness is the awareness of a common identity based on position in the means of production will develop and is the essential basis of the unity of workers. False consciousness is the mistaken identiication of workers with the interest of capitalists. Property is the essential element, however powerful people, like managers, control the means of production they do not own.
