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13 Cards in this Set
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Capitalism |
Econmic system of production for profit in which one class own the means of production and the other class only have their labour |
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Proleteriat |
The social class of workers who have worked for wages as they do not own the means of production |
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Infrastructure |
The economic base of society |
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Communism |
An equal society without social class or class conflict, in which means of production are property of all. |
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Social Class |
A social group who share similar economic situation such as income and wealth. |
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Bourgeoisie |
The social class of owners of production/wealth |
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Private Property |
Land and belongings owned by a social group or individual and kept for their exclusive use. |
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Buffer zone |
Zaretskys idea that families provide an ideolgical space which appears to protect workers from the full-force of misery caused by capitalism |
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Unit of Consumption |
Unlike the pre industrial family, the modern family no longer works together they still consume together |
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ISA (ideological state apparatus) |
Term used by Althusser to identify those parts of the superstructure that brainwashes people into accepting social class inequalities. |
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Policing Families |
Donzelot uses this term to describe social control of families by state professionals such as social workers to 'improve' them. |
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Superstructure |
Those parts of society which are based on economic infrastructure including social institutions such as families, educations. |
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Pester Power |
Children demand the latestet items from their parents, contributes to unit of consumption |
