MARXIST VIEW ON SOCIAL CLASS INEQ Flashcards
summarise the marxist view on social class ineq
social class ineq product of capitalism
who own the means of production?
bouregoisie
who are exploited through low pay and poor conditions?
proletariat
what is surplus value?
difference between what the worker should be paid vs what they are actually paid
worker experience…
false class consciousness
what is false class consciousness?
awareness experienced by proletariat where they think inequalities in society are fair and natural
Bowles and Gintis…
criticised functionalist meritocracy, WC children socialised to be workers of society through edu
Bourdieu found..
cultural capital which WC lack meaning they have to go into manual work
what is never challenged?
the capitalist ideology and class inequality as it reproduced through generations
what had Marxism been accused of?
economic reductionism
what is economic reductionism?
all ineq due to capitalism but ineq can be gender, ethnicity, age etc
what did Marxism underestimate?
the middle class’ role in stratification system, prevents class conciousness
what element of the Marxist view can be criticised?
false class consciousness
why can false class consciousness be criticised?
some are aware of it and fight against it and some just live with the ineq
