NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
Question
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The rich the owners
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The working class
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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: -Karl Marx defined the working class or proletariat as individuals who sell their labour power for wages and who do not own the means of production.
Detailed explanation-3: -What is considered the working class? They are also known as the laboring class or proletariat. In other words, they are a social class composed of people engaged in manual labor or physical work. They generally get their income in the form of hourly wages.
Detailed explanation-4: -Class structure of capitalism. In Marxist theory, the capitalist stage of production consists of two main classes: the bourgeoisie, the capitalists who own the means of production, and the much larger proletariat (or ‘working class’) who must sell their own labour power (See also: wage labour).