SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Ralf Dahrendorf, Abscissa And Ordinate, Social Inequality
15 Dec 2017
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Lecture 24, neo-marxism & theories of conflict and power. Rejection of marx"s two class model: this model focuses on property ownership, Dahrendorf argues that this is not good enough for what is going on in capitalism today (1950s). It has changed because there is a separation of ownership (capitalists) and control (corporate executives and managers), as capitalism developed, they hired executives to run the business, this is something that needs to be incorporated into the analysis. Because of this, social inequality is no longer simply based on production relations (they remain important, but not the only basis of inequality). There"s inequality based on authority relations (borrows a lot from weber). Dahrendorf describes it as legitimate power , and he argued that this authority is associated with social positions (note the weberian influence). Components of authority relations, there are two ways of this, there is a distinction between super-ordination and sub-ordination, as well as domination and subjection. o o.
