SY103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Ascribed Status, Social Stratification, Class Consciousness
Sy103 lecture 29
Social Stratification
and prestige
Means of production
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The hierarchical arrangements of social groups based on their access to power, wealth,
Possession of money or material possessions
Ascribed status
Achieved status
Profit: surplus value from labour
Class conflict will result when proletariat develop class consciousness
Max Weber
3 Components:
Wealth
Prestige
Power
C. Wright Mills
The Power Elite
Wallace Clement & Peter Newman (1975)
Canadian Corporate Elite
Web of ownership, wealth, political power and property
Other Views on Power
Pierre Bourdieu
Cultural Capital
A mixture of education and cultural knowledge
How is Class Measured?
Subjective methods
