SOSC 3210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Blue-Collar Worker, Aristocracy, W. M. Keck Observatory
16 Nov 2015
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Your relationship to the means of production: basic structural difference that shows a difference between workers and, this difference encouraged people to be grouped into classes; i. e. working employers. class. Class structure: social stratification: aristocracy (pre-industrial, based on land, thousands of acres, lucrative positions, gradually disappeared into the capitalist class, or disappeared all together, capitalist class, would become the dominant class. Eaton"s, molson"s rockefeller"s, carling"s, elgin, don mills. Those involved in banking: accumulated enormous profits, middle class, self employed small business owners, shop keepers, farmers, professionals, working class, as industrialization increases, supervisors and middle men, the capacity to sell their labour for a wage. Reliance on male kin was largely dependant on charity, relief programs (provided at the municipal level), petty crime, and prostitution. Single women, deserted, widowed, or otherwise alone for whatever. Being born wealthy won"t guarantee you"ll stay in that social class.
