Consequently, like other socially constructed identities, class is an important category of difference that needs to be addressed. However, unlike other categories of identity, such as race, or ethnicity, class has been largely ignored in American society. ... The working class is made up of people with many "identities" of race, gender, ethnicity, etc. ... Since the civil rights surge of the 1950's, the many strands of identity politics have extended basic rights and improved the lives of many million of women and minorities. ...

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The only other time in the film he is given an identity that isn't a job is when he is in jail. ... He is flexible to take on many roles and enjoy the security and identity that each gives him because he is solely defined by his labour. A role that the Factory Worker seems to take on most consistently, one that perfectly illustrates his working class identity, is that of the machine. ...

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Beggars, vagrants, and criminals and self employed professionals, were not social classes, for they lacked class-consciousness, a shared identity based on their position based in the means of production. ...

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(1) Marxism is about social, economic, political ideas, and about changing and understanding the world. According to this theory, peoples" actions reflect the culture and society. If we want to understand ourselves, we have to reflect upon our culture, activities, and the society in which we live....

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Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche was born approximately 10:00am on October 15, 1844 in the rural farmland named RÖcken bei Lutzen. Friedrich Nietzsche was named after Prussian King, Friedrich Wilhelm IV. He was only four years old when his father died from brain alignment and another tr...

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Karl Marx introduced Marxism into the world because he believed that social standing was determined by money. Through creating such divisions as the upper, middle, and lower class, the theory of Marxism analyzes what ways capitalism can be used against the people. In the book The Grapes of Wrath written by John Steinbeck, the main character, Tom Joad, struggles with being in the lower class because of the limitations set by the rich. As Karl Marx said in The Communist Manifesto, "The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antago...

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