A History of social classes
Description
Marx divided the industrial world into two antagonistic classes: the bourgeois and the proletariat. In today's society, this simple dichotomy fails to capture the many segments of a global marketplace. From the communal hunter/gatherers and agrarian cultures; to ancient empires and medieval fiefdoms; to the technocrats, executives, laborers, and others of the stratified modern world, this program examines how each era has organized its members into social classes. Although the opportunistic meritocracy of the global marketplace has displaced earlier societal models, do older patterns of privilege still linger?
Runtime
53 min
Series
Subjects
- Social structure (572)
- Wealth (179)
- Culture (254)
- Power (Social sciences) (152)
- Social classes (184)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c1999
Database
Films on Demand
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