SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Petite Bourgeoisie, Intelligentsia, Labour Power
30 Nov 2013
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Class: an aggregate of people who happen to occupy a common situation in a market and therefore have similar economic circumstances and life chances. Market: includes the buying and selling of what weber called utilities. Utilities: include two things: material goods: mainly property, as well as products, human services: personal skills and labor power. Weber sees classes as economic categories that are based on either property or services. Marx distinguished between those who have property (bourgeoisie) and those who have services (proletariat) Weber sees two classes with property and two classes with services. The bourgeoisie: own property, these are owners of large amounts of property. The petty bourgeoisie: own property, owners of small amounts of poverty. The intelligentsia and specialists: offer services, salaried non-manual employees. Scientists, technicians , civil servants or managers. The proletariat: offer services, wage-earning manual laborers, sell their labor power on the market.
