SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, Dominant Ideology

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

Document Summary

The long term existence of significant differences in access to goods and services among social groups. The reasons for social inequality are complicated and are the function of many different factors. The interconnected nature of social categorizations (such as race, class, and gender) as they apply to a given individual/group creating overlapping and independent systems of discrimination/disadvantage. Marx + engels: communist manifesto (cid:858)the histor(cid:455) of all hitherto e(cid:454)isti(cid:374)g so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) is the histor(cid:455) of (cid:272)lass struggles(cid:859) Main term used to talk about social inequality is class. Described class as being relational i(cid:374) that it refle(cid:272)ts o(cid:374)e(cid:859)s relatio(cid:374) to the means of production. Marx referred to the owners of production as the bourgeoisie. Knew what was best for their class: class consciousness organized the society to benefit members of their own class. Workers were referred to as the proletariat. Operating false consciousness due to the lack of class consciousness. After industrialization the means of production became capital.