KINE 3P70 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Manfred Ewald, Class Stratification, Bourgeoisie
9 May 2018
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KINE 3P70 Sociology of Sport
Theories of class stratification
1. Karl Marx
Two main classes in capitalism: bourgeoisie(rich) and proletariat(poor)
Objective: where individuals stand within the economic structure of society and the power
structure of a social formation
Subjective: the role class consciousness plays in the constitution of a class
2. Max Weber
- The use of the term community to locate the bases and exercise of power
- The view that classes were more fragmented than Marx suggested
- The ipat of the status groups ad ho they iopletely oerlap ith lass
- Emphasis on the role of political parties and how they influenced class power
3. Anthony Giddens (1938)
- Formal: strongly sanctioned rules
- Informal: tacit (very understood), weakly sanctioned rules, automatic, ones
learned, embodied response to the actions of another in the field
4. Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
- People auulate ultural or syoli apital – habitus
o Habitus: how to conducts oneself, automatic, unconscious
Class is reprodued through the haits of eeryday life or dispositioned
3 KEY ELEMENTS
1. Class ioles a ojetie diesio here people are loated ad their
determinants of opportunity to take part)
2. ^^^ a sujetie diesio siilar liig idiiduals ill share uderstadig of ho
they are and what their life chances are like)
3. Itegratio of these are ruial for uderstadig ho oes soial loation impacts his
or her behaviour as of member of a class.
Workers “ports Moeet
- it was not only the encouragement of participants, but the workers sports
movement fought very carefully about the way they were valuing sport,
competitive but participatory based, less on the big winner, many non-
competitive events, the impact that class had on sport
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Document Summary
Two main classes in capitalism: bourgeoisie(rich) and proletariat(poor) Objective: where individuals stand within the economic structure of society and the power structure of a social formation. Subjective: the role class consciousness plays in the constitution of a class: max weber. The use of the term community to locate the bases and exercise of power. The view that classes were more fragmented than marx suggested. The i(cid:373)pa(cid:272)t of the (cid:858)status groups(cid:859) a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) they i(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)pletely o(cid:448)erlap (cid:449)ith (cid:272)lass. Emphasis on the role of political parties and how they influenced class power: anthony giddens (1938) Informal: tacit (very understood), weakly sanctioned rules, automatic, ones learned, embodied response to the actions of another in the field: pierre bourdieu (1930-2002) People a(cid:272)(cid:272)u(cid:373)ulate (cid:858)(cid:272)ultural(cid:859) or (cid:858)sy(cid:373)(cid:271)oli(cid:272)(cid:859) (cid:272)apital habitus: habitus: how to conducts oneself, automatic, unconscious. Class is reprodu(cid:272)ed through the (cid:858)ha(cid:271)its(cid:859) of e(cid:448)eryday life or dispositioned.
