SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Relative Deprivation, Siq, Dealignment
8 Mar 2014
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Instrumental marxists: economic elites control the government, because: economic elites become political leaders, government officials refer to economic elites for political advice, big business support political parties through campaign donations. Businesses (economic elites) = receive a fair amount of money from businesses (political leaders) We live in a capitalist society, this reality = political leaders must recognize the reality that big business try to control. Government is constrained to work within capitalism and cannot ignore what the bests interests of capitalists. Corporate taxation has declined (steady pattern, public infrastructure = we must pay towards taxes for improvements) Contrasts = talks about change over time. Power not only held by elites by others as well. Example: cross-national comparisons in rates of unionization. Linked to levels of inequality = higher rates of unionization in sweden than in. More socialist governments - work in the direction in reducing inequality based on class and gender.
