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Definition of Class

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A system of power based on wealth, income, and status that creates an unequal distribution of a society’s resources

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How does class work?

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  • It is relational not fixed

- Social mobility

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What anthropologist talked about class?

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Michael Zweig, Pierre Bourdieu and Max Weber

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what did Zweig say about class?

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Wrote “Working Class Majority”

  • Class is not fixed
  • Need to give back dignity to a population that has been sidelined and ignored by the Us economy
  • Power of economic elite
  • POWER
  • class based on authority and independence
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Capitalist Class

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  • anyone who makes a living by owning a business
  • Big business, if don’t deal with employees directly and small business when they directly deal with them
  • as talked about by Zweig
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Middle Class

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  • Not rich and not poor

- in between

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Working Class

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  • has the least degree of authority and independence
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Compare Zweig to the film Workers Republic

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  • working class put at a vulnerability

- capitalist control of the workforce

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Habitus

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  • Bourdieu’s term
  • describes the self-perceptions and beliefs that develop as a part of one’s social identity and shape one’s conceptions of the world and where one fits in it
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Cultural capital

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the knowledge, habits, and tastes learned from parents and family that individuals can use to gain access to scarce and valuable resources in society
-Bourdieu

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Pierre Bourdieu

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  • Habitus
  • Cultural capital
  • social mobility: restrictions on social mobility
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Max Weber

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  • Prestige
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Prestige

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the reputation, influence, and deference bestowed on certain people because of their membership in certain groups

-Max Weber

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Karl Marx

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  • Bourgeoisie
  • Means of production
  • Proletariat
  • labor
  • surplus value
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Bourgeoisie

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Marxist term for the capitalist class that owns the means of production

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Means of Production

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Marx

-The factories, machines, tools, raw materials, land and financial capital needed to make things

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Proletariat

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Marxist term for the class of laborers who own only labor

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Ascribed Stratification

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inherited, assigned at birth and passed down from generation to generation with enforced boundaries

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Achieved stratification

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changeable during a persons lifetime