SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Upper Class, Bourgeoisie, Meritocracy

• School: UBC
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 100
• Professor: Katherine Corrigall- Brown

Document Summary

Social class: working class, middle class, upper class. Shaped historical events: union of soviet socialist republics people of china. Historical periods are: disinguished by the mode of producion of the period. Classes: groups of people who play diferent roles in the producive system. Bourgeoisie (capitalist): own property: property: resources used to produce things and generate wealth, e. g. land, machinery, factories. Proletariat (worker)l those who only own their labour. The history of all hitherto exising society is the history of class struggles (marx and. All socieies are born from the struggle that comes from conlict between the two major classes (overt or covert) These two groups naturally want diferent things: capitalists want more surplus value out of the worker, workers want a good wage and good working condiions. The relaionship between these groups in capitalism is by nature coercive: people who don"t own property must sell labour to survive.