Marx: false consciousness
Low-wage workers strongly support policies that mainly benefit employers, believing the economic system treats them fairly. Marx would call this:
Answer D: explanation for every choice
A
Class consciousness is recognizing shared class interests and the need to act together.
B
Alienation is estrangement from one's work, its products, and other people under capitalism.
C
Anomie is Durkheim's term for normlessness.
D
Correct. False consciousness is adopting the dominant class's ideology against one's own class interests.
TakeawayFalse consciousness: accepting beliefs that serve another class's interests.
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