The Basics

Question 1

What is social stratification?

Answer 1

Society’s hierarchy is unequal

Question 2

What is intersectionality?

Answer 2

CAGE intersects to impact our life chances

Question 3

What is glass ceiling?

Answer 3

Women face discrimination

Question 4

What is ethnicity?

Answer 4

The common culture shared by a social group e.g language, religion, food

Question 5

What does Karl Marx say?

Answer 5

• Argues society is based on hierarchy and social control
• Raw materials exploited
• Workers are exploited because they want profit
• Capitalism creates alienation
• Every human society has class struggles

Question 6

What is primitive communism?

Answer 6

Wealth is shared, communal ownership

Question 7

According to Marx what were the different societies?

Answer 7

Primitive society- wealth is shared, communal ownership
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Ancient society- master and slave complex
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Feudal society- landowners, monarchy, peasants
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Capitalist society- bourgeoisie (ruling class) and proletariat (subject class)

Question 8

What are the criticisms of Marx wanting to overthrow the system in a revolution?

Answer 8

• Ignores individual, sees them as passive
• Romanticises revolutions
• Doesn’t account for gender, only class inequalities

Question 9

What is capitalism?

Answer 9

An economic system in which the means of production of goods or services are privately owned and operated for a profit