Sociology / Unit 1 Soc 0026 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Class Consciousness and False Consciousness
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The idea
Class consciousness is a class's accurate grasp of its own position and shared interest; false consciousness is a mistaken grasp of it, held in terms serving another class.
In practice
Workers competing against each other for a shrinking wage pool, rather than acting together on the wage, illustrate the second.
Where people slip
False consciousness is a claim about interests, never a judgment of anyone's intelligence.
Your place on the trail
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