marxist inequality
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- Created on: 07-04-15 10:55
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- Marxist view of inequality
- explains inequality in society by examining the way in which the bourgeoisie exploit and oppress the working class
- Inequalities are as a result of the economic arrangements people make to meet their basic needs
- A few wealthy and powerful people, the bourgeoisie, own the means of production and the rest just own their own labour power- creates major division in society
- The bourgeoisie exploit and oppress the proletariat
- The proletariat have little or no power, where as the bourgeoisie have the power to exploit and oppress
- Capitalism survives because the inherent inequalities are either not recognised or accepted
- Marx argued if people did not recognise they were being exploited it could be seen as they had false class consciousness
- Bowles and Ginits
- Explain how the education system reproduced the ideas of the ruling class and legitimated inequalities
- Students experience of school is an alienating one
- School specifically prepares students for their future in the Capitalist system
- Argue school doesn't prepare everyone in the same way
- Schools aren't meritocratic and claim schools are part of the ruling class ideology persuading people inequalities are fair
- Braverman
- Argued there has been a de-skilling of white collar jobs, they have become proletarianized partly due to technology
- De-skilling leads to a loss in bargining power by the workers concerned and a consequent loss of earnings and conditions relative to others
- EVALUATION
- Marx argued Capitalism would eventually give way to socialism and then to communism but it clearly hasn't, despite recessions etc
- The New Right and Functionalists argue the bourgeoisie are not a united class
- Postmodernists argue class is dead and people make their own choices
- Feminists argue that traditional Marxism ignores the gender inequalities people experience
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