SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Social Stratification, Labour Power, Proletariat
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Need to examine relations between unequal groups. Ideological (control ideas, beliefs, knowledge, information guiding social action) Each major societal form marked by struggle between haves and have-nots . Classic greece, feudalism, capitalism: source of division: productive property (ownership/non-ownership of property) Capitalist class = high power and status. Means of production: life essentials: housing, tools and land, factories/machinery: transform raw materials to finished goods. Proletariat: property-less majority: own labor power, reliant on owners of property to be employed as wage laborers. Alienation: working under capitalism produces experiences of powerlessness in social life. Workers benefit little from massive wealth around them. Power shift: nobility & church bourgeoisie, peasants proletariat. Social stratification results from the interplay of these three. Have wealth, status (social prestige) & power. Agrarian (agricultural) society: emphasize status through honor system. Industrial society: wealth economic dimension of class i. e. if member of socialist party (in a socialist country), can get privileges over everyone else.
