Moving on to the Post-Industry Revolution Europe, we can observe the blatant change that the French Revolution caused at the global level for the benefit of democratization. Industrial Revolution did not only brought mass production, and it also caused the lines of the social classes to get blurry. Also, the term society and the concept of many people living closely (which is a direct result of industrialization and the urban population growth) caught the attention of philosophical scholars. Social Inequality and stratification are some of the topics that political philosophers from the post-Industrial Revolution Europe such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and J.J. Rousseau discussed that paved the way for more profound arguments about social class. (6) We cannot discuss social class and not mention Marx. Karl Marx was a philosopher and sociologist that lived in the 19th century and the author of the “Das Kapital” where he criticized capitalism and provided another economic system. Marx’s analysis about the social classes can be summarized in a sentence such as “In Marx's analysis, the capitalist class could not exist without the proletariat, or vice-versa.” (7) The co-dependency of the two classes which are the capitalist class and the proletariat (working class) makes the cycle of treatment vicious under capitalism because everyone wants to profit and no one has the obligation to treat the other in a good manner or even fair. Marx proposes the idea of the workers being able to afford what they are producing with the wages that the capitalist class is paying them, of course, this idea was refused by the ruling class which is very parallel to the capitalist class at the time. Hence, here we are in 2021, and the richest 1% of the world owns 44% of the world’s total wealth. (8)

Since now, we talked about the social classes of the past, but the social classes still exist, only now, they are only money-based. On the one hand, since the modern social classes are only money-based, the mobility between the classes is very possible and common. On the other hand, money-making is still about the advantages that come from birth, because intergenerational wealth still exists, the fact of people of color and the genders other than cisgender men earns less is very well known. (9) (10) (11) The fact that someone being different than a cisgender heterosexual white man in any aspect makes them earn less makes the social class divisions still about the lineage, but this time the money is the mediator.

Society’s Classification of Women

All of this history written and played by men, women only have a voice for just over a hundred years, and still no voice in some parts of the world. Until New Zealand allowed women to vote in 1893, none of the women living on earth had to right to vote. (12) As seen on the map below, half of the women did not have a right to vote until 80 years ago. (13) Today, women have the right to vote, however, men still want to be able to control and regulate women’s bodies, just like the good old days(!). Women’s right to decide upon their own body still is not full liberty, unfortunately, the oppression that the women of color, transgender women, non-heterosexual women, and any other women who are not in the lines of society’s expectations of them face is more than the ones in those lines face. After women getting into the workforce (since Industrial Revolution actually, due to the subdued wages) and the sectors that previously men-dominated since the 1970s, women starts having their own money, own social status, and the own social circles which made them also part of the working class and a different side of the society. Inescapably, they demand their own decision-making about their body, they spoke up about the mistreatments they receive from men such as harassment, abuse, and violence in sexual and social contexts.