SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Heredity, Belief, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
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Each of these intertwined operated in different mechanisms. Bending the will of others on to your own. Getting people to do what you want to do, despite of if others don"t want to do it. Power in one"s money, capital, buy things property, technology, ability buy honor, strength. Symbolic resources were important: honor people and follow what they do, status, popularity, peer pressure. Power in one domain of social life didn"t necessarily transfer to all domains of social life. In democratic politics: it can be seen as a liability in terms of getting votes. Wealthy criminal: drug load, gang leader not a lot of prestige or honor. Poor people become prestigious: mahatma gandhi, mother teresa. Professors don"t get so much money and get prestige. What you do tends to define class, how you operate in a market as simply to class. Your material class has to do with market economy.
