Marxism and Social Classes

1. The function of a social class structure is to give people power. Rich higher classed people have more power than lower class people. Higher classes tend to control the lower classes, however the lower classes are the reason the upper class has their wealth. So in this theory each of the classes can keep each other in check. 2. The conflicts that arise are that the wealthy upper class always want more and more from the lower classes and the lower classes want to give less and keep more. Hence the quote "The rich get richer while the poor get poorer". This creates a lot of tension between the classes the Rich want more making the poor turn on them. 3. We associate Kings and Queens with the upper classes. We associate the middle like the American dream of a family with a little house and a white picket fence. We associate the lower class with peasants and homeless people. 4. The only change I wouldn't change the class structure but I would force the upper classes to have to invest more money into charities and the economy than they do and raise taxes to a much higher rate for only the upper class. 1. Ascribed class is when someone is born into their wealth and they don't make themselves they have it given to them. Achieved is when someone "makes their own luck." They fight their way to the top often times moving up through the classes.