SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Communist Manifesto, Lumpenproletariat, Social Inequality
8 Nov 2016
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Long term existence of the significant differences in access to goods and services among social groups. Keep in mind that the reasons for social inequality are complicated and are the function of many different factors, including: class, ethnicity, gender. Intersectionality: the interconnected nature of social categorization such as: Race, class and gender as they apply to a given individual 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 described class as relational in that it reflects one"s relation to the means of productions. Marx referred to the owners of production as the bourgeoisie. The workers were referred to as the proletariat. After industrialization the means of production became capital. Capital: the money needed to build factories, purchase raw materials, and pay labourers to turn those raw materials into manufactured products. Marx identified other sub-classes in his work:
