SOCIOL 2R03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Neoliberalism, Class Consciousness, Deindustrialization
24 Sep 2013
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Determine where people are situated in relation to privilege. How inequality developed through different society types: 1st category: hunting and gathering: everything was shared equally. 2nd category: horticulture & herding societies: large ppl working together collectively, left sites for better redistribution of goods. 3rd category: agrarian: private property + surplus food=capitalist economy = most inequality. 4th category: frontiers and ports: export industries. 5th category: industrial society: inequality increased: more ownership of production, but then it drop because of the creation of the middle class. 6th category/stage: post-industrial society (deindustrialization): debate on the way theorists have seen this stage: equal playing field in terms of material capital. Conservative thesis: inequality is necessary: marx: proletariat needed to reach a class consciousness to settle the revolution, worth systems theory and dependant theory: concerned with the privileged core. Fox 2 tutorial 1: weber: people are stratified based on class, status or prestige and party.
