SOCY 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bourgeoisie, Market Segmentation, Glass Ceiling

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 336
• Professor: William Andrew Silver

Document Summary

Inequality and class: what did the liberals have to say about class and taxes in the last election, raise the taxes on the highest income earners. Wright on class: rooted in marx. Social relations of production, not income or occupation. Doesn"t account for the stratification that has developed in society: how to apply marxist approach to class to society with: Why do the pawns go after them? managerial positions, laws. Where does the manager fit in: employing a strict marxist approach to work and class, which class do managers fit into, in a large bureaucracy, whose interests do managers serve? the owners" interests. Contradictory class locations: managers dominate workers and are dominated by the bourgeoisie, and they may even directly exercise certain ownership rights and thus exploit workers, while at the same time being exploited by capital. They are thus in a sense simultaneously in two classes: they are workers in that they are exploited and.