Themes 4/5

• Class Consciousness: an awareness of what is in th ebest interests of one's class
• Class reductionism: intellectual fallacy that all forms of oppression are just about class - a view that wrongly downplays the role of factors such as race, gender, age, and ethnicity
• Dominant Capitalist Class: those who own or control large scale production
• discrimination: acts by which individuals are treated differenty - rewarded or punished - based on their group membership
• Hegemony: the use of power by groups with more power; using domination to satisfy interests
• ideology: a set of interrelated beliefs about society and the people in it
• Karl Marx: talks a lot about class but missed the idea of social mobility and was unconcerned with socialization
• Master Narratives: a narrative that a country/dominant power creates about itself
• middle class: between super rich and super poor
• prejudice: "pre"-judgement of others on the basis of their group membership
• proletariate: the working class
• Racialization: social process in which people where viewed and judged as essentially different in terms of their intellect, morality, values, and innate worth because of their physical or culteral heritage
• Social contructivism: the idea that social identities such as genger, ethnicity, and race do not exist "naturally" but are constructed by individuals or groups for different social purposes
• Social inequality: long term existence of significant differences in access to goods and services among social groups, defined by class, race, ethnicity, etc.
• Social mobility: moving up and/or down classes
• Strata: a level or class to which people are assigned according to their social status, education, or income. Usually a number of equal groups into which a population has been divided for comparison
• white genocidalists: believe that other races shouldn't exist

  ex. Hitler
• White seperatists: want white people to live apart from other races because they believe that whites are better and must be "protected" from "race-mixing"

  ex. Diagalon
• Working Class: made up of people who lack resources or capacities apart from their own labour power