Class system

The class system, also known as class society, is one of the forms of social stratification in which the social position of an individual is determined by affiliation to a social class.

The origin of the concept of social class, in a modern sense, developed mainly in the 19th century. Subsequently, various sociologists and historians have used the concept both to analyze modern and ancient societies. However, for periods of European history prior to the XIX century, such as European societies under the Old Regime, some Authors prefer to speak of estate societies.

Introduction

In the advance of the development of humanity, there has been a growing process of formation of groups of people, which have been studied at various times and by various researchers.

However, it was not until the German Karl Marx developed, together with Friedrich Engels, the research that concluded enunciating the social conformation in well-differentiated classes and the struggle or competition between them, when it was possible to better understand social development and its historical becoming as prevention of the future.

Classes were always there in society and accompanied its evolutionary development, they were configured over hundreds of years of constant struggle, and it was the study of Marx, when the constitution of social classes from its inception is better understood. birth, development, strengthening and location over the rest of society.

With the work of Marx we were able to see synthesized an enormous process of conformation, struggle between classes, until its consolidation in the states formed from the industrial revolution, where what has been called the fundamental classes are configured: a minority, which has its strength in capital and is known as the capitalist class, and the other class, which has its strength in its number and which is known as the proletarian class, made up of workers, the creators of wealth for the other class.

The social classes established by Marx are based on the accumulation of capital, in the location before the production and work that each of them contributes for the reproduction of capital and goods in the form of merchandise.