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Workers accept the idea that hard work is its own reward, an idea that mainly serves the owners. What did Marx call this?

AClass consciousness
BOrganic solidarity
CSocial integration
DFalse consciousness
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. False consciousness
1. Marx asked why the working class did not simply rise up. 2. Part of his answer was that workers hold beliefs that are not in their own interest. 3. That condition is false consciousness. 4. The ideas involved, such as competition over cooperation, plainly benefit the owners of industry. 5. Workers are then less likely to question their place in society. 6. Class consciousness is the cure, not the disease: it is awareness of one's own rank in society. 7. Organic solidarity and social integration are Durkheim's terms and belong to a different argument. _Source: OpenStax Introduction to Sociology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 3 "Culture", Ch 4 "Society and Social Interaction" and Ch 5 "Socialization", section 4.2 Theoretical Perspectives on Society_
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