SOCIOL 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Traditional Authority, Intersectionality, Karl Polanyi
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Rational (appears commonly in the reading of weber) Formation of society (soc formed out of many social tendencies or dynamics) Each dynamic has its own history (in any place, talking about a society it will be different in every other place as they all have their own history) (class in fr different in u. s. ) Concept of history (history is open and not inevitable) Ideal type analysis (take a tendencies and take it out of any given history and look at it and put it back in and see what happens) Domination = make people do what you want them to do (power) Modern = increasing rational b/n people and new form of domination arising. Soc resource = something produced socially by society. Wealth (socially produced) (republicans do not believe) Status (most important soc res) (prestige/honor) (legitimize your exercising of power) (stabilizes your use of power as people will follow if legitimate) (illegitimate rule has not worked too well)
