NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
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Capitalists, business owners, own the means of production
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Working class, peasants, own nothing
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the theory of Karl Marx, the term proletariat designated the class of wage workers who were engaged in industrial production and whose chief source of income was derived from the sale of their labour power.
Detailed explanation-2: -The proletariat (/ˌproʊlɪˈtɛəriət/; from Latin proletarius ‘producing offspring’) is the social class of wage-earners, those members of a society whose only possession of significant economic value is their labour power (their capacity to work). A member of such a class is a proletarian.
Detailed explanation-3: -PROLETARIAT (proletarian): The “lower” or “working” classes, the members of which must under capitalism sell their labor in order to earn a living.
Detailed explanation-4: -The peasant is locally oriented and defensive politically, yet has contributed to revolutionary change. The proletarian looks to association beyond locality and is the basis of modern class politics, but the political impact of the proletariat has varied with time and place.