SOC263H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Melvin Tumin, Class Stratification, Social Inequality
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American declaration of independence thomas jefferson. He was a very large slave owner. Thomas jefferson and addin swane wanted to limit the powers of the ruling class starting to think about equality. Enormous contribution to the history of civilization. Was wrong about socialism but right about capitalism. Believed history was driven by materialism and economics. The dominant ideology is created by the ruling class. The class owns the means of production [land, factories] = bourgeoisie, controls the material forces and the intellectual force ruling class. Those who do not own these means, they are subject to the working class = proletariats. In theory, marx says that working class will revolutionize and the system will collapse. Western society developed through four main stages: 1. Primitive communism hunter-gather society; free of social class stratification (only when they begin to produce, do we see stratification this is a slow process: 2. Advanced communism was to replace capitalist society.
