SOC102H1 Chapter 9: Starting Points: CH9 Classes and Workplaces
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Differences in the kind of work that people do contribute to the existence of different social classes - set of people with different life chances. Marx: a set of people who share the same relationship to the means of production. Weber: a set of people with common economic situation, based on income, property, and authority(among other things) Part of the difficulty in knowing one"s own class is that class is an economic relationship, not a fixed attribute. The majority of people will stay in the social class into which they were born for their entire lives. Class socialization: the process of teaching, learning, and passing on patterns of fashion and consumption. Social classes exist largely because of economic inequality. The gap in canada between the rich and the rest has grown over 30-year period. Any unequal society creates social classes that are relatively impermeable, especially at the top and bottom.
