Sociology 2239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Inequality, Labour Power, Bourgeoisie

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2239
• Professor: Esra Ari

Document Summary

Weber and social inequality: according to weber, class, status, and parties are all aspects of the distributions of power within the political community , weber looks at multiple bases of power and inequalities, argues and rejects crude economic determinism argues that marx explains all inequalities depending on economic structures, for him that"s not enough, gender, age, status and race are also factors, complexity of social inequality and stratification. Webers four classes: big capitalists, small capitalists (petty bourgeoisie, specialists do not own property, but own skills and qualifications, technicians, white collar workers & civil servants, have more marketable training and skills, working class don"t have the skills like specialists, have labour to sell and make money, they only have manual labour power, there are 2 middle classes for weber they are able to consume similar products, its not the ownership it"s the distribution of products.