SOC263H5 Chapter 2: Chapter 2- Class and Inequality.doc
Document Summary
Two themes from marx"s work on social class that help us define what class in marxist sociology means: social class is based in productive relations individuals who engage in production processes have various rights and powers over the resources that are used in production processes, social class is conceptualized in relational terms unequal access to the rights and power associated with productive resources is thought of as a class relations. Argues that the following principles form the basis of class exploitation: the inverse interdependence principle: the material welfare of one group of people causally depends upon the material deprivations of another, the exclusion principle: the inverse interdependence in (a) depends upon the exclusion of the exploited from access to certain productive resources, usually backed by property rights, the appropriation principle: exclusion generates material advantage to exploiters because it enables them to take advantage the labor effort of the exploited.
