neo marxist views of inequality
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- Created on: 07-04-15 10:01
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- Neo- Marxist view of Inequality
- Takes account of changes and developments in the 20th century
- The dominance of ruling class and ideas- hegemony- Gramsci 1971
- Stressed the role of ideas enabling ruling class to maintain power and control
- Used hegemony to describe the ideological control the dominant class have over the masses
- Argued the bourgeoisie control the working class by controlling ideas which are now dominant
- Argued the ruling class shouldn't rely on the WC having false class consciousness
- There are different divisions between classes and the state can exploit these divisions in order to maintain ruling class hegemony
- Hegemony persuades the WC that the power and rule of the bourgeoisie are legitimate
- The relationship between the infrastructure and superstructure
- Crucial in understanding the way in which the ruling class reproduce and legitimate class inequality
- The infrastructure is the mode of protection and social relations are linked to this
- The proletariat sell their labour power to the Capitalists/bourgeoisie
- Althusser 1970- argues the education system successfully exploits the working class- they accept the system is fair. Most RC rely on the ideological state apparatus to persuade people inequalities are fair
- The changing nature of the class structure
- Wright 1978 said growth in technology and of intermediate supervisors has led to change
- Control is now important and the relationship to the means of production
- Some non manual occupations are in a contradictory position- between two classes
- Cultural/social/economic capital
- Bourideu argues that class inequalities are reproduced by the education system
- The system values the cultural capital of the middle classes
- They are able to impose their habits on the education system which gives their children an advantage, then translated into capital (money)
- The cultural capital they possess allows them to introduce their children to the right or influential people into the job market
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