SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Class Consciousness, Nouveau Riche, Class Conflict
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Class system: based no money or material possessions social mobility: movement up or down the class ladder gender also used in class to categorize and divide people. Caste systems: process of placing people in occupatioal groups. Complexities of inequality intersectionality: the interrelations between among various inequalities. Defining social class confict socioligists (marx) see only two ways most sociologist agree that there are may ways (weber) social class: a large group of people who rank closely to one another in wealth, power and prestige. Bills gates wealth was more than gdp of central america. Sam walton had 38% of walmart shares and was in the top 20 billionaires but workers received under the poverty line. Dumhoff argues elite are powerful and affect politics. Marx thought the power of bourgeoisie would control everything (polics, miliarty, etc) people within the same classes also compete for resources this doesn"t just cause conflict with labour unions and corporations but everyone.
