SOC102H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Conspicuous Consumption, Oscar Lewis
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Starting points: chapter 9 - classes and workplaces. Introduction: how work, class and inequality are related. Di erences in the kind of work people do contribute to the existence of di erent social classes - sets of ppl with di erent life chances. Marx; a set of ppl who share the same relationship to the means of production. Weber; set of people with a common economic situation, based on income, property and authority. Class socialization: process of teaching, learning and passing on patterns of fashion and consumption. Social classes exist because of economic inequality: mobility is hard because any unequal society create social classes that are relatively impermeable, esp. at the top and the bottom. All history was driven by class con ict and as societies moved from one form of production to another, the classes in control changed, accompanied by changes in the means of production.
