SOC263H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Traditional Authority, Charismatic Authority, Petite Bourgeoisie
Document Summary
Documentary: from people like us: first impressions of people are important and indicate their social class within society. The clothes people wear are often used as an instant classification of class. This is a stereotypical view of class, just because an individual is dressed poorly doesn"t mean he/she is poor. Social class: based in productive relations, relational. Types of classes: owners of land, capital, labor power: labor is work and labor power is the capacity to work. These people are self-employed and are referred to as the old middle class: proletariat: who have no choice but to sell their labor power ( the capacity to work) to the bourgeoisie in order to survive. Class: class situation, the working class as a whole, the petite bourgeoisie, property less intellectuals, classes privileged by property or education. Power is every possibility within a social relationship of imposing one"s own will, even against opposition.
