SOC100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Mahatma Gandhi, Iqvia, Classical Marxism
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Social inequality is the long-term existence of signi cant di erences in access to goods and services among social groups. Class is the main term used to talk about social inequality. Class is relational - it re ects a relationship to the means of production or capital (funds and properties necessary for typically large-scale manufacturing and trading) There are only two possible relationships to the means of production: either you own them or you work for those who do. Owners = aristocrats and workers = peasants in pre-industrial europe. Marx called the owners of capital, capitalists or bourgeoise. The class of workers made up the proletariat. How class divisions are re ected in popular sport. Mobility sports - sports that o er people from poorer socioeconomic backgrounds the chance to reap large. Any sport that is cheap to play, and opportunities to play and be discovered are readily available to people of all classes.