SOC100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Labour Power, Anomie, Thorstein Veblen
skyelephant476 and 39511 others unlocked
26
SOC100H1 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
26 documents
Document Summary
Marx: a set of people who share the same relationship to the means of production. Weber: a set of people with common economic situation, based on income, property and authority. While educational achievement and hard work can lead to a better-paying job or more fulfilling career, the majority of people will stay in the social class into which they were born for their entire lives. Class socialization: the process of teaching, learning, and passing on patterns of fashion and consumption. Both max and weber were concerned with the workplace conflicts arising out of class relations. Marx provided the functions of class analysis and weber built on them. Convinced that by developing an understanding of history, he would be able to see the contours of the future and prescribe remedies for the present. Concluded that all of history was driven by class conflict.