Social class Flashcards
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What is social class?
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- social stratification system found in modern industrial society
- Groups of people who share similar economic positions
- similar levels of education, status and power.
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The ruling class and the subject of class:
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Karl marx stated that class is split into 2 categories.
- bourgeoisie (the ruling class):
Control the means of production such as buisnesses and factoires.
the smallest group however own the most health. - Proletariat (the working class):
work for the ruling class by producing goods and services.
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Manual and non manual
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some sociologists believed in a middle class.
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