Social classes
- Date
1999
- Summary
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Marx divided the industrial world into two antagonistic classes: the bourgeois and the proletariat. In today's society, this simple dichotomy fails to capture the many segments of a global marketplace. From the communal hunter/gatherers and agrarian cultures; to ancient empires and medieval fiefdoms; to the technocrats, executives, laborers, and others of the stratified modern world, this program examines how each era has organized its members into social classes. Although the opportunistic meritocracy of the global marketplace has displaced earlier societal models, do older patterns of privilege still linger?
- Contributors
Leduc, Louis-Roland; Morris, George
- Publishers
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm); Productions Coscient Inc.
- Genre
Documentary television programs
- Subjects
Economics, Business, Commerce, Labor; Economics, Business, Commerce, Labor; Social classes; Social stratification -- History
- Locations
North America; United States; New Jersey
- Collection
Films@UM
- Unit
Distinctive Media Collections
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- In Copyright
- Terms of Use
Access is restricted to patrons at the University of Maryland.
- Physical Description
53 minutes; color
- Notes
Access
Access condition: campus-only.
Creation/Production Credits
Directed by Louis-Roland Leduc ; written by Claire Frémont ; produced by Vincent Leduc ; produced by Productions Coscient Inc. Narrator, George Morris ; guests: Craig Calhoun, François Dubet, Michel Guay, Jan Pakulski. Directors of photography, Marc Gadoury, Stéphane Ricard ; editor, Marie-Claude Bourdon ; music, Pascal Mailloux.
- Other Identifiers
Filename: lms-089701; Fedora 2 PID: umd:10706; Handle Identifier: hdl:1903.1/3181; Catalog Key: alephsys004130236; OCLC: ocn607126919
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: collection staff, users in specific IP Ranges.