SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ideal Type, Conservative Force, Investment

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Willow Scobie

Document Summary

How they earn a living = their class position. Proletariat: working class who sell their labour to the bourgeoisie. He(cid:859)s sa(cid:455)i(cid:374)g that this d(cid:455)(cid:374)a(cid:373)i(cid:272) e(cid:454)ists (cid:271)ut the relatio(cid:374)ship is fraught with tension and struggle. Self-realization through work people want to work. It is capitalism that inverted the world of work and turned it against the workers: capitalism: most important changes were brought about by capitalism. Features: private ownership, profit as incentive, free competition. Use of cheap labour, expansion and investment for wealth: power: capacity of individuals or groups to make their own concerns count, even when others resist. Historical materialism: main sources of social change are driven by economic influences. Ideologies: power sometimes involves the direct use of force, but it is almost always accompanied by the development of ideas (ideologies) which are used to justify the actions of the powerful.