1. Extra Credit Assignment (I will post the relevant slides): 1.5 pt for each…Do as many as you want D o a class analysis of yourself. Must be typed and handed in by the day of the exam. 1. Relational: Use Erik Olin Wright’s method to determine the class you will be in once you start your future job. Be sure to explain your reasoning. 2. Gradational: Use Marger’s method to determine the class you will be in once you start your future job. Be sure to explain your reasoning. Wage and Salary Data: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#31-0000

2. Neo-Marxists Further Divide Working Class according to different criteria  Property structures  a primary dimension of class in modern industrial society which refers to ownership or non-ownership of the major means of production.  Occupational structure  a primary dimension of class position in modern industrial societies pertaining to a person’s occupation & skill level.  Bureaucratic authority structure  a primary dimension of class in modern industrial societies, which refers to one’s authority position in a bureaucratic organizations.

3. In with the New…Erik Olin Wright’s scheme, 1990s Consider Auto Company: Plant Supervisor, Engineer, Line Foreman, Line Worker RELATION TO THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION (Property Structure) Owns Means of Production Does not Own Means of Production Capitalists 8% Expert Managers 18% Managers 9% Has Authority RELATION TO BUREAUCRATIC AUTHORITY Small Business 7% Experts 17% Workers 42% No Authority Skilled Unskilled RELATION TO OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE

4. Gradational Approach to Class  Gradational-define members of a class based on some aspect of the their socio-economic status  Socio-economic status typically a measure of Income & wealth – count $ Occupational prestige Autoworker, Chemical Engineer, Janitor Educational level- count the yrs  Different researchers calculate it differently Upper/Capitalist Class Upper Middle Class Lower-Middle Class Working Working Poor Underclass

5. Martin Marger’s Class Structure