SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Communist Manifesto, Social Inequality, Lumpenproletariat

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Lindsey Freeman

Document Summary

Sa 150: chapter 7 social inequality (november 7th, 2016) The long-term existence of significant differences in access to goods and services among social groups: ex. class, ethnicity, gender and power. Keep in mind that the reasons for social inequality are complicated and are the functions of many different factors including class, race, ethnicity and gender. The interconnected nature of social categorization such as rece, class and gender as they apply to a given individual or group creating overlapping and independent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles . The main term used to talk about social inequality is class. Karl marx described class as being relational in that it reflects one"s relation to the means of production: marx referred to the owners of production as the bourgeoisie, the workers were referred to as the proletariat. After industrialization, the means of production become capital.