SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Friedrich Engels, Social Inequality, Lumpenproletariat

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Explains how subcultural values, beliefs, and practices become defined as deviant by mainstream society. Explains how labels become internalized by both majority and deviant group. Labels may take on a master status, a status that dominates all others. Study of social inequality is a longstanding sociological tradition. Social inequality is the long-term existence of significant differences in access to goods and services among social groups. Social inequality is a function of many factors, including ethnicity, race, gender. Historical approaches to the study of social class. A central term when talking about social inequality is class, popularized by karl marx and friedrich engels (1888) Class reflects one"s relation to the means of production, or the resources needed to produce goods. Funds and properties needed for large-scale manufacturing and trading. Bourgeoisie: collective of capitalists who own the means of production. Proletariat: class of workers who work for those who own the means of production.

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