SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Labour Power, Bourgeoisie, Social Fact
13 Feb 2015
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Effects on modern society: paradox, protestantism as a necessary condition for the birth of capitalism, yet over time, capitalism no longer need protestantism. As capitalism grows, it starts destroying protestantism. Durkheim: sociology and the moral crisis: sociological method, social fact, normal vs pathological, suicide, sociological explanation, anomie. Power and stratification: power: capacity of an actor to realize his or her own will against the resistance of others, stratification: hierarchical division of society into groups based upon social inequalities. Production - producing or making products, and consumption - purchasing or consuming products. Status (social form of power: standing in society, determined by honour and prestige, status groups (based on ethnicity, race, caste, etc, lifestyle. Party (political form of power: group organized to acquire social and political power, highly organized and hierarchical, tendency towards the concentration of power in the hands of leaders.
