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Download file to see previous pages... The foreigners came for various reasons including work, settlement, and humanitarian work among other duties. This immigration caused emergence of classes of people based on prior perceptions. This paper seeks to analyze social classes in the state of New South Wales. In view of this, it will attach a Marxian and Weberian approach based on economic class and other sociological components. Marxian and Weberian Approach to Class According to the Marxian class theory, the production position held by an individual determines the class they hold in the society. The political and ideological consciousness determines the position of the person. Therefore, the production process structure determines the construction of the class. Max distinguished two classes by use of two criteria; the ownership of production means and the ability to control the power of the labor. In fact, he divided the class into three regions; the bourgeoisie, proletariat and petite bourgeoisie. By social means, these three classes are always at conflict. The Weberian approach takes a similar look at class with a famous definition. He defines class as the ability of a given actor in the society to be able to dispose his will accordingly regardless of resistance from other members of the society. The power in society therefore rests on class, status groups as well as parties. Proliferation of economic classes is rife and just like Marx; there are class groups; the dominant entrepreneurs or the propertied groups, petty bourgeoisie, the middle class and the working class (Breen, 2004, p. 5). Social class in New South Wales New South Wales borders victoria state to the south and Queensland to the northern side. This gives it close proximity to the capital cities of Australia in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane as well as Hobart in further south Tasmania. Therefore, these are some of the areas that recorded a very high level of migrations to Australia. With due permission from the Australian government, the highest number of immigrants were the British, Chinese and Indians with over 10% of the population. There is however a high presence of other people in the state with minimal percentages being from developing nations such as Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Ethiopia, Sudan among others. Migration to this region is based on three reasons; perceived opportunities in the region, political reasons especially based on the home countries and family reunions. It is however based on opportunities that social classes emerge. Immigrants from perceived English developed nations tend to have set rolling a high living standard and the least they can accommodate is the Weberian petty bourgeoisie. Otherwise they are accommodated in the dominant entrepreneurial group. Those who come from developing nations usually escape from political strife in their home countries and therefore, they may only be having labor power as their only asset. According to weber, such people occupy the working class positions automatically. Even those who come with a high sense of knowledge usually lack the monetary strength to put them in upper positions. They then end up positioning themselves automatically either in middle class or the working class. Most of the dominant class groups are people from the UK and the USA whereas the lower positions are usually occupied by people from the developing nations. Some of these positions are not planned to be so but come out automatically. There are reasons as to why there is a high profile class positioning in the state of New South Wales. The first is historical reasons. In the 18th century, there ...Download file to see next pagesRead More