SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Class Consciousness, Class Discrimination, Proletariat

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

Document Summary

Social inequality is the long-term existence of significant differences in access to goods, services, and opportunities among social groups (e. g. , class, ethnicity, gender). Examples: old boys club, food deserts, racial discrimination. reasons for social inequality are complicated and are the function of many different factors, including: classism, racism, ethnocentrism, and sexism. Intersectionality: the interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, 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 (1988) described class as being relational in that it reflects one"s relation to the means of production. According to marx, under capitalism, proletariats and members of the bourgeoisie do not share the same interests. After industrialization the means of production became capital.