CLASS Flashcards
Definition of Class
A system of power based on wealth, income, and status that creates an unequal distribution of a society’s resources
How does class work?
- It is relational not fixed
- Social mobility
What anthropologist talked about class?
Michael Zweig, Pierre Bourdieu and Max Weber
what did Zweig say about class?
Wrote “Working Class Majority”
- Class is not fixed
- Need to give back dignity to a population that has been sidelined and ignored by the Us economy
- Power of economic elite
- POWER
- class based on authority and independence
Capitalist Class
- anyone who makes a living by owning a business
- Big business, if don’t deal with employees directly and small business when they directly deal with them
- as talked about by Zweig
Middle Class
- Not rich and not poor
- in between
Working Class
- has the least degree of authority and independence
Compare Zweig to the film Workers Republic
- working class put at a vulnerability
- capitalist control of the workforce
Habitus
- Bourdieu’s term
- describes the self-perceptions and beliefs that develop as a part of one’s social identity and shape one’s conceptions of the world and where one fits in it
Cultural capital
the knowledge, habits, and tastes learned from parents and family that individuals can use to gain access to scarce and valuable resources in society
-Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
- Habitus
- Cultural capital
- social mobility: restrictions on social mobility
Max Weber
- Prestige
Prestige
the reputation, influence, and deference bestowed on certain people because of their membership in certain groups
-Max Weber
Karl Marx
- Bourgeoisie
- Means of production
- Proletariat
- labor
- surplus value
Bourgeoisie
Marxist term for the capitalist class that owns the means of production
