POL 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Business Council, Comprador, Class Consciousness

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2101
• Professor: Joseph Roman

Document Summary

Stratification and hierarchies as features of any cap society. Capitalist markets are arranged on the basis of exchanging money for goods and services. Class as a determinant of one"s life chances (parents poor then youre poor, hard to work up). Legal influences infrastructures underpin the relationships that exist within capitalism, especially as it relates to the relationship between capital and labour (private property= legal code) Class analysis examines the relationships that exist between groups of ppl at the workplace and how this plays out in wider social and political relations. Raises qs about the role of the state in capitalist democracies (how much and when does the state work on the behalf of capital interests). Instrumentalism vs structural concepts of the state and the ways in which it works on behalf of capital. Power as a relational concept (fluid and always changing among groups). Social relationships and how the distribution of resources structures ppl"s life chances.