Anindita Nikmatus Syva , 2211415010 (2019) SOCIAL CLASS DOMINATION OVER PROLETARIAN GROUP IN KEVIN KWAN’S CRAZY RICH ASIANS: REDEFINING SOCIAL CLASS HIERARCHY AS FAMILIAL AND CULTURAL TRADITIONS. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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This study analyzed social class domination over proletarian group based on social class hierarchy as a familial and cultural tradition in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians. The aims of this study is to describe how social class domination is described in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians and explain how social class domination over proletarian group based on social class hierarchy as familial and cultural tradition. This study uses a qualitative method. The data in this study were taken from the object of the study, Kevin Kwan’s novel Crazy Rich Asians. The data were collected by reading, identifying, finding the data, interpreting the data, and reporting. In analyzing the data, the researcher used Marxism theory of Karl Heinrich Marx that to cases focusing on cultural aspects of dominant, residual, and emergent categories. The conclusions of this study were: first, social class in Kevin Kwan’s Crazy Rich Asians, there are two types of Chinese social classes. Second, the reasons of Chinese bourgeois groups maintain their social class from proletarian groups to protect their lineage and family’s reputation. Even though the Chinese bourgeois group is modern people and highly educated, they are still guided by familial and cultural traditions to preserve their reputation and wealth. Third, social class domination conducted by Chinese bourgeois group belongs to the category of dominant 'residual' in view of Marxist theory.

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