Sociology 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Ascribed Status, Social Inequality, Achieved Status

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1020
• Professor: Kim Luton

Document Summary

Karl marx on capitalism, exploitation and class con ict: Main components of mode of production > means of production, social relations of production. Value of product sold directly related to amount of labour needed to produce it. Surplus value created pro ts for owners > exploitive relationship. Previous modes of production had collapsed and been replaced due to class con ict. Max weber on class and other dimensions of inequality: Economic inequalities are central to social strati cation system and ownership of property was a primary determinant of power > agreed with marx. Power lies in other resources as well: economic inequalities, hierarchies of prestige, political inequality or class, status and party . Did not expect middle class to disappear like marx, but expected it to grow. General approach to studying classes = weberian. Functionalist theory became popular after wwii because it did not emphasize con ict.