NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
Question
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The working class
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The rich / owners
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The farmers
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The sailors
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Detailed explanation-1: -The bourgeoisie or capitalists are the owners of capital, purchasing and exploiting labour power, using the surplus value from employment of this labour power to accumulate or expand their capital. It is the ownership of capita l and its use to exploit labour and expand capital are key here.
Detailed explanation-2: -The bourgeoisie, according to Marx, are the class which owns property in the form of factories and farms. They were opposed to the proletariat workers.
Detailed explanation-3: -What class is above bourgeois? The term bourgeois is rather outmoded in our time. It once referred to the post late Middle Ages emergence of a new class, the middle class. In those days, the bourgeois was superseded by the landed gentry and they by the nobility and they by royalty.
Detailed explanation-4: -In a capitalist society, the bourgeoisie, or the capitalist class, is the class that owns the means of production and derives a passive income from their operation. Examples of the capitalist class include business owners, shareholders and the minority of people who own factories, machinery and lands.