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This 3 page paper examines the ideas of Marx, Weber and others to discuss social class in contemporary society. Various ideas are explored. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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to reap assistance from the government. Of course, others look at society and see a great social class divide which persists despite effort and is often aligned with race and
gender components. They see an unfair distribution of wealth where people live in cardboard boxes on the same street as a wealthy individual who owns a million dollar apartment. That
is an example of extremes, but class is usually a much more subtle thing. After examining the issue of class identity, Savage, Bagnall & Longhurst (2001) for example conclude: "
We can see then how ambivalent references to working-class or middle-class identities should be understood as rhetorical attempts to establish normalness" (p. 892). Indeed, people like to see themselves as
either middle or upper class, and living within normal parameters. For most, middle class is ordinary or accomplished and an upper class existence is something to be proud of. In
examining classic sociology, the problem with the class divide is that resources are not appropriately shared, but different sociologists have different views on the matter. It is the class
divide that is so significant for Marx. Marx & Engels (1998) claim, in The Communist Manifesto: "The bourgeoisie has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up
to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage- labourers" (p.21). Authors also contend
that marriage is something of a farce, employed by the capitalist government. They refer to family and things associated with marriage a "bourgeois claptrap" (Marx & Engels, 1998, p. 57).
One can see that this idea is timeless. Here, Marx talks about the division between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat or the upper class and the working class. He
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