01:920:103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Proletariat, Cultural Capital, Economic System
2 Feb 2017
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Sociological imaginaion: americans are much more comfortable recognizing the power of individual iniiaive than recognizing the power of a social class . Achieved or ascribed: we all begin with a social class from birth, even if we move economic classes during our lifeime, we have a tenancy to remain in the same social class. Varying thresholds: the entry into the middle class has changed. Direcionality (cause and efect: more educaion more income, social class you"re born into level of educaion. Class structure: opportuniies can shit without changing individual characterisics, which inluences the opportunity structure. Values = class: opportunity / posiion = class. Biological inferiority poor culture poverty structure usually how we try to explain things. Class is one"s relaionship to the means of producion. Economic systems determine class structures: you can only ill a class that exists, capitalism: the opions were bourgeoisie & proletariat, marx believes the 2 classes had an inherent conlict ex)
