SOC 1200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Class Conflict, Bourgeoisie, Proletariat

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Kandrack Mary- Anne

Document Summary

Federal employees taking twice as many sick days. 12 sick days a year, jobs so stressful: not getting treatment, needed for long term. Social class - sets of people with different life chances: stem from work you do. Class: marx - set of people who share the same relationship to means of production, weber - set of people with common economic situation, based on income, property, and authority, effect on health, crime, conflict. Most people stay in the class they were born into: owing to class socialization - the process of teaching, learning, and passing on patterns of fashion and consumption. Classes exist largely because of economic inequality: cant really move up, because classes dictate your life chances, chances to move up. Class conflict - results from diverging economic interests: wealthy business owners want to pay workers as little as possible.