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Extra Credit Assignment (I will post the relevant slides): 1.5 pt for each…Do as many as you want

Extra Credit Assignment (I will post the relevant slides): 1.5 pt for each…Do as many as you want. D o a class analysis of yourself. Must be typed and handed in by the day of the exam.

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Extra Credit Assignment (I will post the relevant slides): 1.5 pt for each…Do as many as you want

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  1. Extra Credit Assignment (I will post the relevant slides): 1.5 pt for each…Do as many as you want Do a class analysis of yourself. Must be typed and handed in by the day of the exam. 1. Relational: Use Erik Olin Wright’s method to determine the class you will be in once you start your future job. Be sure to explain your reasoning. 2. Gradational: Use Marger’s method to determine the class you will be in once you start your future job. Be sure to explain your reasoning. Wage and Salary Data: • http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#31-0000

  2. Neo-Marxists Further Divide Working Class according to different criteria • Property structures • a primary dimension of class in modern industrial society which refers to ownership or non-ownership of the major means of production. • Occupational structure • a primary dimension of class position in modern industrial societies pertaining to a person’s occupation & skill level. • Bureaucratic authority structure • a primary dimension of class in modern industrial societies, which refers to one’s authority positionin a bureaucratic organizations.

  3. RELATION TO THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION (Property Structure)  Owns Means of Production Does not Own Means of Production Capitalists 8% Expert Managers 18% Managers 9% Has Authority RELATION TO BUREAUCRATIC AUTHORITY Experts 17% Workers 42% No Authority Skilled Unskilled RELATION TO OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE Small Business 7% In with the New…Erik Olin Wright’s scheme, 1990sConsider Auto Company: Plant Supervisor, Engineer, Line Foreman, Line Worker

  4. Gradational Approach to Class • Gradational-define members of a class based on some aspect of the their socio-economic status • Socio-economic status typically a measure of • Income & wealth – count $ • Occupational prestige • Autoworker, Chemical Engineer, Janitor • Educational level- count the yrs • Different researchers calculate it differently

  5. Martin Marger’s Class Structure

  6. Martin Marger’s Class Structure

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