SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Social Stratification, Proletariat, Class Conflict
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Sociology test notes- chapter 8: class and status. (cid:498)the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of struggles . society is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other bourgeoisie and proletariat (marx and engels) Marx maintained that society is divided into these classes on the basis of their relationship to the means of production their access to the tools, factories, land, and. As the bourgeoisie, who owned the means of production, pursued their self-interest in the form of profit, they necessarily exploited the proletariat, who had little choice other than to sell their labour investment capital used to produce wealth. According to marx, this capitalist mode of organization has several characteristics that distort the structure meaning of the economic process: private property, expropriation of surplus wealth, division of labour, and alienated labour. Marx contended that the drive for private property was primarily responsible for creating the two-class system.
