Class position rests on work type, capital access, and cultural value

Evidence

This is to say that class position in a society is based on the kind of work one does and on one’s access to capital. In this sense, class can be analyzed comparatively in terms of societal conceptions of work and the value attributed to di√erent types of labor. Class is also a cultural construct that must be understood through its intersections with other social categories of analysis. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 60

Categorization

• DEFINE: A compact working definition of class as simultaneously material (work, capital) and cultural (socially attributed value).
• XREF: connects to: Class position determines how commodities are perceived and categorized. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 380; Class is defined by relation to production, incorporating both property and control — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 679