SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Class Conflict, Class Consciousness, Advanced Capitalism

• School: UTSG
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H1
• Professor: Lorne Tepperman

Document Summary

Class inequality is different from other inequalities. Includes: unlike gender groups, who have distinguishing physiological features, unlike racial groups and age groups which have distinguishing features. Tuesday, october 10, 2017: unlike ethnic groups which have distinguishing cultural features, social classes are no easily distinguishable. It is dif cult for individuals to develop class consciousness; it is something that must be socially constructed. Class differentiation requires an awareness of class differences and interests. Class conflict and class resistance are hard to maintain. Convergence thesis: industrialization eliminates cultures and social patterns; as societies industrialize under capitalism, their social patterns become more similar, despite social and cultural differences that existed before. Tuesday, october 10, 2017: specialization people are limited to doing a single task or step in the work process, associated problems: specialization makes jobs repetitive and dull, many workers become de-skilled (braverman, too much specialization threatens social solidarity. Alienation of the worker and product (no control of the product)