SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Neoliberalism, Bourgeoisie, High High

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Judith Adler Hellman

Document Summary

Pervasive you will find it everywhere. Class associated with karl marx and engles. It isn"t until the industrial revolution we talk about class. And through this, they buy other peoples labour: bourgeoisie power, proletarians. Make their living by selling their labour power. Class as subjective topic: in the western world after the cold war, in terms of level of education, property you own, where you live. No empirical definition of class in the states everyone considers themselves as middle class. Economic power (ability to shape the workplace, influence the structure of the economy) Political power (influence government policy), cultural and. Ideological power (shape and influence the dominant ideology, define what is normal, what is the good life: a social relationship and it systematically produces inequalities. If there was a growth in economy, decrease in unemployment. Unacceptable to trade off lower unemployment for higher inflation: standard in keynsian period. Inflation has replaced employment in priorities of the government.