SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Protestant Work Ethic, Finance Capitalism, Social Stratification

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

1904/5 the protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism. How does it operate, its functions, dynamics etc. Human needs to produce our means of subsistence. Cannot leave the system upon which their livelihood depends. they have to sell themselves. Classes, status group, and the parties are phenomena of the distribution of power within a community. Status group makes up the social order, classes the economic order, and parties the legal/political order the distribution of power. Each order effects and is affected by the other. Class- multiple possible relationships of an individual or a group the the market. Does everyone share the same opportunities, no but do they have the same access to resources, no but because of different life chances. Need to share and have the same life sources there are 3 key aspects of class. 1. similar/shared life chances: a number of people have in common a specific causal component of their life chances income of dentists ,000 (2005)