SOAN 2112 Study Guide - Iron Cage, Protestant Work Ethic, Class Consciousness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2112
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

Society then people contradiction as revolutionary crisis middle strata as emergent multiple outcomes. Class related to means of production owners vs. workers (those who don"t add to production are useless and not part of a class) Classified people based on process of production. Gradual move to capitalism conscious thought. Economic forces influence thinking and social organization relations of production influence thinking alliances, rational legal authority. Class related to power, wealth and prestige not only 2 classes not only material important. Classified people based on placed in process of production. Other factors with class gender, stauts etc. Caused by protestant ethic people need to work and reinvest (accumulate and not spend because of destiny) Revolution in the sense of transcending bureaucracy creating new non-bureaucratic society. Division of labor = increased form of solidarity than before. Problems are due to rapid social change, with new rules there will be harmony. Reform not revolution division will form cohesion.