Weber And Class Inequality Flashcards
What are the studies for Weber and social class ?
- Social class
- Status
- Party
- Barron and Norris: dual Labour market (status)
How does Weber: social class
How does Weber define social class ?
Group who share similar market situation and reverie similar economic rewards and share similar life chances
According to Weber: social class,
How does Weber argues there was a further divide within these two groups what was it ?
Owners of big business was can earn bigger profit than smaller businesses due to having a better market situation
According to Weber: Social class,
Weber suggest that in the capitalist society there are four main social classes what is it ?
- Propertied upper class: wealthy buisness owners
- Property-less white collar workers
- Petty bourgeoisie: owner of small businesses
- Manual working class: poorest market situation
Weber: status
What is status according to Weber ?
- Social honour and prestige and respect a person receives from others and whether seen as superior
- persons economic, class, religion,
According to Weber: status,
What are individuals aware of ?
Of their status situation so tend to identity with others of similar status e.g caste system in India
According to Weber:status
Class and status are closely linked but what can be different ?
Within classes, status distinction are important e.g divide upper class with land aristocracy and nouveaux riches
According to Weber:status, how can class and status overlap ?
With a person who becomes wealthy due to lottery but has no status just wealth
Weber: party
What is party ?
Groups who are concerned with Exercising power and influencing decision making
Weber: party
Examples of parties ?
- Trade unions : to improve wages
- RSPCA: Animal cruelty
- greenpeace
According to Weber: party
What are some parties linked to ?
To class interest
Weber: party
How are parties linked to class interest ?
E.g trade unions represent the working class
Pressure groups : for all classes and status groups e.g LGBTQ (stonewall)
According to Barron and Norris: dual labour market
What is the dual labour market split into ?
Primary and secondary labour
According to Barron and Norris: dual labour market
What is primary labour market ?
Secure and well paid jobs with good promotion
According to Barron and Norris: dual labour market
What is secondary labour market ?
Low paid and poor security jobs with low promotions
According to Barron and Norris: dual labour market
Where are the working class concentrated in the dual labour market?
Secondary labour market
According to Barron and Norris: dual labour market
Where are the middle class dominated in the dual labour market ?
Primary labour market
According to Barron and Norris: dual labour market
What is the primary labour market guilt of ?
Social closure
What are the evaluations of Weber and class inequality
- Simplicity- Barron and Norris
- a dated model : Barron and Norris
- what is the root cause ?
- what is the solution ?
What is the simplicity evaluation to Barron and Norris ?
Barron and Norris claims that there are two types of Job- those in the primary and secondary labour market but there of a spectrum of different jobs
What is the Weber evaluation of dated model to Barron and Norris ?
Worse jobs are increasing in them quality this due to workers right and Knowledge in healthcare
E.g Uber driver will technically fit into secondary labour market but enjoy more flexibility that secondary labour worked in the past
Where is the root cause evaluation ?
Weber does not explain why some social class end up in different sectors of the labour market and why some have more status than others
What is the solution evaluation ?
Does not provide way to im other society or vision to what a better society may look like
Feminist is always clear for problem and solution to patriarchy so is Marx
