SA 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Dominant Ideology, Stratified Sampling, Classical Marxism

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Lindsey Freeman

Document Summary

Social inequality is a function of many factors. The long term existence of significant differences in access to goods and services among social groups. Reflects a relationship to means of production (resources needed to produce goods and wealth) In europe before industrial revolution: means of production = land. Wealth produced by growing food crops and raising livestock. After industrial revolution: means of production = capital (money needed to build factories, purchase raw materials, pay labourers to turn raw materials into manufactured products) Workers (succeeded the peasant class of the industrial-era) Pette bourgeoisie = small-time owners with little capital. The shared sense of common membership and common purpose that a social group can have. Awa(cid:396)e(cid:374)ess of what is i(cid:374) the (cid:271)est i(cid:374)te(cid:396)ests of o(cid:374)e"s (cid:272)lass. Owners class possession: always known what was in its best interests and attempted to shape society in a way that promoted those interests.