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Name: Adedayo Olusola Course: ANHAS Group: C: Subject: Welfare and Society (Health and Society) Social class is grouping of people together and according them status within the society according to the groups they belong to, is as old as society itself. To Karl Marx (1883), social class is determined by the ownership (or non-ownership) of the "means of economic production" - i.e. those groups who own factories, farms, coal mines, raw materials called 'the bourgeoisie'. But Max Weber (1864) opposed to Marxist theory argued that social class is determined by the skills and qualifications which people possess when competing for work in the job market, which determines the social prestige, life-style and life-chances. This view of Weber's has been the generally accepted by the sociologists, and occupation has become a widely used definition of class. Therefore, social class is regarded as a summary variable which tells us about attitudes and values, standards of living...

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