SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Social Stratification, Social Inequality, Labour Power
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Ideological control ideas, beliefs, knowledge, information, guiding social action. Karl marx class, conflict & power of property. Each major societal form marked by struggle between haves and have-nots (classic greece, feudalism, capitalism: source of division: productive property ownership/non-ownership of property. Economic class is fundamental : capitalist class = high power & high status, means of production: main source of division. Factories/machinery transforming raw materials into finished goods: bourgeoisie controls the means of production, proletariat property-less majority. Reliant on owners of property to be employed as wage laborers: alienation work under capitalism produces experience of powerlessness in social life. Workers benefit little from massive wealth around them. Gross inequalities: shift from feudalism capitalism. Max weber: recognizes multiple power sources, no axis is fundamental, have wealth, status (social prestige) and power. Ways in which people can be have and have-nots : social stratification results from interplay of these 3, agrarian emphasize status honor.
