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a system of power based on wealth, income, and status that creates an unequal distribution of a society's resources
Egalitarian society:
Reciprocity:
Ranked society:
Redistribution:
KARL MARX
MAX WEBER
LEITH MULLINGS
PIERRE BOURDIEU
Bourgeoisie
Proletariat
Marxism today
Today, what makes up the bourgeoisie class?
- Do the latter two groups possess the same access to capital as the former two?
Today, who makes up the proletariat class?
- divided by race, gender and ethnicity
expanding Marx's concern for economic stratification of wealth & income
Class position - relative wealth, power, and prestige - determines access to these resources
Weber adds that class stratification doesn't just happen
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PIERRE BOURDIEU
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Education is considered the key to upward social mobility within stratified societies
social mobility: the movement of one's class position, upward or downward, in stratified societies
social reproduction: the phenomenon whereby social and class relations of prestige or lack of prestige are passed from one generation to the next
LEITH MULLINGS
Intersectionality: an analytic framework for assessing how factors such as race, gender, and class interact to shape individual life chances and societal patterns of stratification
Consumer culture
Media - largely ignore the existence of the poor and working class and the gaps between wealth and poverty