SOCI 3820 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Registered Retirement Savings Plan, Petite Bourgeoisie, Savings Account
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Chapter 4 class, health inequality, and social justice. Popular notions of class tend to focus on lifestyle difference, particularly fashion, as social markers of status. Sociological analyzes of class tend to focus on the underlying factors that actually produce and reproduce class differences. The different theoretical perspectives that sociologist use have resulted in continuing debate over appropriate definition and theories of class, most of which today focus in erik olin wright"s neo- Weber shared marx"s belief that economic inequalities, that is, class, were central in explaining an individual"s life chances; however, he refined marx"s notion of class relation to include hierarchies of prestige and political inequalities. Both relations of domination and exploitation and the distribution of material benefits are ways of delineating classes. To add to the confusion as to the precise meaning of class, some scholars use the term interchangeably with that of socioeconomic statue" (ses). Ses is somewhat equivalent to what grabb refers to as strata".