CHYS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Proletariat, Cultural Capital, Food Desert
15 Mar 2014
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I/ defining class: differences in wealth: money and valuable goods a person or family controls minus outstanding debt (macionis 259), class as occupation, with a focus on income, relation to means of production, relational, proletariat, petty bourgeoisie and bourgeoisie, skills, educational resources, class composite, wealth goes beyond how much money someone makes, do you own several properties, businesses, money invested in the bank, etc, a way of thinking about class that is a marxist way of thinking, measuring skills and educational resources, an approach that people who are more thorough try and use (adding all the points up and making. The focus is on income and how much you make (primary way of defining class) assessments drawn from that) A) ideology of classlessness: class is something that is more or less visible, belief that we do not really have classes, hiding some kinds of truths = ideology.
