SOC 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Canadian Dollar, Bourgeoisie, Business Cycle

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 203
• Professor: Margaret Reid

Document Summary

Working class formation in canada capitalist class"s power comes from > control over society"s productive resources. Marx reason why working class opposes the power of the capitalist class is b/c they experience the exploitive & alienating work. Marx says that accumulation @ one pole = at the same time accumulation of misery, agony & slavery on the opposite pole. Standard of living for workers decreases while capitalist increase believed capitalism should have created conditions to give workers organization & resources to resist capitalist power: changes in production process = workers getting closer & working together. Capital class > grows smaller and working class grows larger > therefore no intermediaries when con ict occurs individual workers lack the resource to counter the power of capitalists. Unlike marx > weber considered class, status groups as the phenomena of the distribution of power.