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© 2015, 2013, 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Essentials of Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach, 11e James M. Henslin Chapter 7 What determines social class? Compare Marx and Weber’s social class theories.

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What Determines Social Class? Karl Marx: The Means of Production Means of production Bourgeoisie Proletariat Class consciousness False class consciousness

© 2015, 2013, 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Karl Marx: The Means of Production Social class depends on a single factor: people’s relationship to the means of production—the tools, factories, land, and investment capital used to produce wealth. Bourgeoisie: (capitalists), those who own the means of production Proletariat: (workers), those who work for the owners

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© 2015, 2013, 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Class Consciousness: a shared identity based on their relationship to the means of production. –Farmers, peasants, & self-employed did not perceive themselves as exploited workers whose plight could be resolved by collective action.

© 2015, 2013, 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. False Class Consciousness: workers mistakenly thinking of themselves as capitalists. –holds back the workers’ unity and their revolution Owner or Worker: the only distinction because property determines people’s lifestyles, establishes their relationships with one another, and even shapes their ideas.

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© 2015, 2013, 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. These photos illustrate the contrasting worlds of social classes produced by early capitalism. The photo on the left was taken in 1911 at a canning factory in Port Royal, South Carolina. The two girls on the left are 6 years old; the one on the right is 10. They worked full time shucking oysters and did not go to school. The photo on the right was taken in the late 1800s. The children on the right, Cornelius and Gladys Vanderbilt, are shown in front of their parents’ estate. They went to school and did not work. You can see how the social locations illustrated in these photos would have produced different orientations to life and, therefore, politics, ideas about marriage, values, and so on—the stuff of which life is made.

What Determines Social Class? Max Weber: Property, Power, and Prestige

© 2015, 2013, 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Max Weber: Property, Power, and Prestige Social class, Weber said, has three components: property, power, and prestige.

© 2015, 2013, 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Property (or wealth): ownership is not the only significant aspect of property; some powerful people, such as managers of corporations, control the means of production even though they do not own them. Power, the second element of social class, is the ability to control others, even over their objections. Prestige, the third element in Weber’s analysis, is often derived from property and power, since people tend to admire the wealthy and powerful.

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© 2015, 2013, 2011 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Prestige can sometimes be converted into property. Shown here is “Snooki” Polizzi, a reality television star, in one of her attempts to do this.