Class analysis

Class analysis is research in sociology, politics and economics from the point of view of the stratification of the society into dynamic classes.

Quotes

• All the actions of the dominant class manifest its need to divide in order to facilitate the preservation of the oppressor state. Its interference in the unions, favoring certain "representatives" of the dominated classes (who actually represent the oppressor, not their own comrades); its promotion of individuals who reveal leadership capacity and could signify a threat if they were not "softened up" in this way; its distribution of benefits to some and penalties to others: all these are ways of dividing in order to preserve the system which favors the elite.
  • Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968), as translated by Myra Ramos, p. 144

See also

• Class conflict
• Class consciousness
• Class stratification
• Social class