SOC-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Class Conflict, Resource Mobilization, Reference Group
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Although marx saw conflict as located primarily in the economic struggle between capitalists and workers, and saw material relations as primary, we can generalize from his theory to see other ways conflict is central to social life. Weber: some clarification equally important as economic class struggle. Compared to marx, weber saw struggle for political or administrative control as. Societies can be characterized in terms of the way in which political authority. In our time, authority is primarily bureaucratic, in which tasks are supposed to be and/or administrative control is organized rationally allocated for maximum efficiency, sometimes at the expense of democracy and concern for the individual. Capitalism is a unique phenomenon, path-dependent on the rise of certain ideas in. We can"t understand the operation of society without studying the neglected members of society. E. g. , we can"t understand how capitalism works without attending to its dependence on the unpaid labor of women in the home.
