... no wealthier than workers - dentists, teachers, nurses all rise into the lower m/c from w/c status in 19th C. • Middle Class Culture o Lot of money spent on food o Use of servants o Well housed - apartments in Europe, houses in Britain o Values: Hard work, education, religion o Insecurity about social and ... week. In 1841, 5 shillings bought exactly 7 four-pound loaves of bread, to feed a family of two adults and three children. That left absolutely no money for rent, or even tea. In the early 1800s, tea cost about 5 shillings, and rent about 5 shillings a month. In the building trade...

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... named Rafael. He is a good boy living in a bad neighborhood while surrounded by violence and drugs. His went to a school that doesn't have enough money to fund itself. The playgrounds weren't safe; there were no clean drinking fountains, nor any open fields to run. Christmas comes along and his family had ... to stagnation. Someone that is of a more wealthy family is given much more opportunities and chances of success than another from a less fortunate household. Money talks in America and without a certain amount of financial and material power it is very hard to progress or even surv...

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... possibly my high school diploma. My mother remarried when I was 11. My step dad was a railroad engineer at the time and was making pretty good money. His contributions to the family helped tremendously and we moved into a much nicer home. At this point in time my mother works for a hospital billing ... Another factor that will greatly influence my social mobility is marriage. Marrying someone who is from a high class and comes from wealth is more likely to increase my mobility. Gilbert explains how people are very unlikely to marry a person of a different class. He says that people find ...

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... and capitalism have dictated the way of life for the general public. The wealthy keep their money and lead the good life style while the poor work for the rich. This is the reality of the capitalist society that surrounded Karl Marx in ... not really have an idea of what the whole product is. In the case of an assembly line worker building a car they would not even make enough money to purchase the end product, which further alienates them from it. Workers are also alienated from their co-workers because of the unnatural way they are made to ... produced more and more his value goes dow...

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... . Marx developed two different classes, the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat. These two classes did not in any way share a common interest. The Bourgeoisie wanted to lower salary in order to increase their profit. On the other hand the Proletariat wanted to raise wages in order to improve their living conditions. Marx realized that because capitalism could not make both classes happy ... that class struggle must be the active force behind history. Marx's theory on class struggle was basically a "challenge, defeat, change" system. When the aristocracy had money because they owned land, the...

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... the bourgeoisie are a big part of how a country in capitalist form of government develop (475). The bourgeoisie use and abuse the capitalist government for their good, to deepen their pockets, increase their property and causing class system to mover further apart. "increased its capital, and pushed into the backround every class handed down from the middle ages" (475). It is as ... to support their family's, trying to give what the bourgeoisie has. "The bourgeoisie has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation to a mere money relation"(476). Th...

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... people were not doing these things then there would be no sense of shame when we compare ourselves. We would find it perfectly acceptable to just increase our possessions and not give back at all. Why do all these people unconsciously want to be like each other? The answer is simple. ... betray or confess the secrets of one's destitution is also regarded in some measure, as a sign of incapacity" (Ewen 193). The problem lies not in money that is apparent but in the power that is unapparent. This is important because the possessions are sought not for their own sake but because they make ...

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... of the western society because the Capitalists were mainly concerned about increasing their own capital while increasing the pressure on the Proletariats which led to an enormous increase in the income gap and also an increase in the number of oppressed Proletariats which encouraged them to revolute against the Bourgeois and thus as Marx Said "The Bourgeois produced its own grave diggers ... the strong barriers that the Bourgeois had created between themselves and the Proletariats is Revolution. Proletariats must revolute against the Capitalists in order to prevent the accumulation of p...

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... members of organized labor. Many only have a precarious hold on middle-class status and tended to be less concerned with imitating upper-class culture and behavior than with making enough money to sustain a middle-class life-style. The middle class are differentiated primarily on the basis of the attitudes and values they held and on their origin in the social system ... because their families already know them. For instance, on the video "People Like Us" the rich throw parties for only people who have a lot of money. They usually only socialize with people who make as much money as the...

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... spaces, means of production, monopolies and the distribution of more power to the bourgeoisie. The success of Capitalism is directly connected to capital and wage labor. Capitalism's goal is to increase profits called accumulation; profits are then reinvested elsewhere to make more capital. Like the buying and selling of an object in the capitalist market, but in this case the exchange ... is money for the ability of labor, what Marx calls labor power. Capitalism flourishes by extracting surplus value, or profit, from the commodities produced by the working class. Without capitals and p...

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... of the working population. (49). In Guatemala, agriculture is the prime income for the country, and the people as well as the land are constantly exploited in order to get money. But it seems that even though the people work, and work they don't get anything in return, they don't see to advance. Agriculture plays a huge role in the income of ... all the worth, but they aren't getting paid what they should be. And Marxism theory emphasized that the system is set up that way so that they workers try to increase their share, but the capitalist don't let them (52). The structure of agricult...

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... starts centers as well as after school clubs are available to radically prepare those from a low income family with life success as well as educational determination, this in turn will increase social mobility as well as push students into higher education. Centers like these will be a benefit to Christina's family, in terms of support and advice. Furthermore, another initiative which has ... and ownership side. The range of differences he sees are characteristics such as, education, gender and skills that a person may have he believes class can be judged through how much money a person...

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... class, the wage laborer, and the oppressed. With work constantly being replaced by the machinery produced by the bourgeoisie, the proletariat must struggle to find a decent job and earn enough money to survive in the bourgeois society. The machine has stripped away from the hands of the proletariat the need for skill or talent in his work. A man becomes an extension ... all right of inheritance. 4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. 5. A national bank with an exclusive monopoly of credit. 6. Centralized communication and mass transportation controlled by the state...

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