Pierre Bourdieu used differences in cultural capital to define distinctions in this concept.
A book by William Sumner concludes that different groups defined by this concept owe very little to one another. Pierre Bourdieu used differences in cultural capital to define distinctions in this concept. An 1899 book by Thorstein Veblen argued that in modern societies, sports, religion, and the military form the backbone of an economically unproductive example of one of them. The beginning of the Communist Manifesto defines the history of society as the history of struggles between these concepts, and divides society into two of them called the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. For 10 points, name these social divisions, the primary focus of Marxist economics.
A book by William Sumner concludes that different groups defined by this concept owe very little to one another.
social classes [or social status; or socioeconomic status; accept conspicuous consumption before it is read; prompt on examples of a specific socioeconomic status, such as being rich or being poor]