relationship among socioeconomics classes, both within a society and among
societies, and it plans all human activities in terms of the distribution and dynamics
of economy power (p.54). Finally, from Marxist perspective, differences in
socioeconomic class divide people in ways that are much more significant that
differences in religion, race, ethnicity, or gender (p.54).
Lois Tyson in his book Critical Theory Today (2006), specifically mentions
that created human experience were the economic systems that structure human
societies (p.53). Tyson (2006) added the economic power became a background or
influence factor of all human activities. As it stated:
‘For Marxism, getting and keeping economic power is the motive
behind all social and political activities, including education,
philosophy, religion, government, the art, science, technology, the
media, and so on. Economic power therefore always includes
social and political power as well, which today when talking
about the class structure, it refer to socioeconomic class’(Tyson,
2006, p.54)
Therefore, economic power is the motive behind all social and political
activities. The economic power always includes social and political power as well.
The economic power also influences classification of people, or the class structure.
2.2 Lower-Class and Upper-Class
According to Tyson
(2006), people can
be
differentiated into
individuals
who
belong to the bourgeois and who belong to the
proletariat by observing their
socioeconomic lifestyle. This could be seen example from the lower-class who
has
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