HSCI 340 Lecture 4: week 4 note
8 Mar 2017
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Chapter 4 class, health inequality, and social justice. Class determines life chances: class/ social class a position in a system of structured inequality based on the unequal distribution of income1, wealth2, power3, and status4 ** (quiz 2). Erik olin wright neo-marxist; john goldthorpe neo-weberian. Marxian approach: classes are a product of social relations and are defined by one"s relationship to the means of production, 2 major classes. The bourgeoisie : who owned the means of production. The proletariat : who sold their labour power. The petite bourgeoisie : such as independent and small business owners. Whom he expected would disappear with more advanced forms of capitalism. Weberian approach: (shared marx"s belief) economic inequalities were central in explaining an individual"s life chances: refined marx"s notion of class relations to include hierarchies of prestige and political inequalities. These structures of inequality as class, status, and party.
