SOC102H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Anomie, Harry Braverman, Erik Olin Wright
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John tory- elected mayor of toronto last night, with ford and olivia chow behind. The areas that voted for john tory- the higher class, wealthy. Commonly refers to large social groups defined by persistent, shared economic conditions, although other shared factors such as prestige, power or culture can also play determining roles. The most widespread understanding of class derives from karl marx"s acct of society as fundamentally divided btwn groups that bear different relationships to the means of production (such as tools and material resources) However, some forms of power and status are not connected to ownership of capital. Some group interest and loyalties are not connected to class in a marxian sense. Economic criteria remained central to the understanding of class divisions, but he distinguished these from questions of status and political power, which were subject to their own, not always identical, hierarchies.
