SOC 336 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Class Consciousness, Class Conflict, Ruling Class
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Weber: giddens, giddens suggested, st. simon was a true founder of sociology. One is given a chicken or egg scenario. Marx believed the modification of the capitalist system can only occur if the following processes are in place. Polarization of classes, capital and wage waver: 1st aspect of class polarization is related directly to the discussion of transitional classes. Like the conundrum, regarding class-consciousness and the economic market, the issues of whether capitalism leads to the absolute destruction of material living standards of the wage laborer. (emiseration thesis) is just as complicated: class, status, and party a. Some people had economic power and no social honor a. ii. Laws of marginal utility : weber suggested the laws of marginal utility related to the mode of distributional goods in a competitive economic market b. It excludes non owners or workers from competing for a highly valued good.
