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Weber: Class Inequalities Flashcards

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1
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What are the four studies for Weber ?

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  1. Social class
  2. Status
  3. Party
  4. Barron and Noris
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How did Weber define social class ?

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Group/Members of society that receive the same : economic rewards, life chances and similar market situations

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those who share similar life chances, economic rewards and similar market situation was Weber’s definition of what ?

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Social class

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Who did weber argue there was a division between in terms of social class ?

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Further division between property owners and those who sold their labour for wages

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Webers example of further division between business owners and those who sold their labour of wages in social class ?

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  • Owners of big businesses can potentially earn bigger profits than smaller business
  • white collar workers can sell their labour at a higher price than manual workers
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Why are these examples done according to Weber social class ?

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To have a better market situation

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What is the four main social classes Weber suggested was in the capitalist society ?

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  1. Propertied upper class
  2. The property-less white-collar workers
  3. The petty bourgeoisie
  4. The manual working class
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The propertied upper class, the property-less white-collar workers, the petty bourgeoisie , and the manual working class is example what ?

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Four main social classes in a capitalist societies

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What is the propertied upper class ?

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The wealthy owners of big businesses

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What is property-less white-collar workers ?

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Those with skills and educational qualifications , they form the middle class
- have better market situation that manual workers because of qualifications

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What is the petty bourgeoisie?

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Owners of small businesses , Weber did not see as disappearing or merging into working class

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What is the manual working class ?

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Has the poorest market situation as they possess neither wealth or qualifications to improve their market situation

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Those with skills and educational qualifications that form the middle class and have better market situation than market workers because of these qualifications is the definition of what ?

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The property less white collar workers

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This class has the poorest market situation as they possess no wealth or qualifications to improve their market situation is the definition for what ?

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The manual working class

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The wealthy owner of big businesses , what is this definition ?

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The propertied upper class

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Owner of small businesses , Weber did not see this class as disappearing or merging into the working class is the definition of what.

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The petty bourgeoisie

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What is status in short term ?

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Social power

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Where can your status come from ?

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Class , religion, ethnicity , lifestyle and occupation

19
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What can people have in terms of status ?

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People can have low class but high status and people can have high class low status

20
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Example of someone with low class but high status ?

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Priest

21
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Example of someone with high class but low status ?

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Lottery winner

22
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How do we socialise in terms of status ?

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Socialise with those in the same status

23
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What is status definition?

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Honour, prestige , respect, inferiority and superiority

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What is party according to Weber ?

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Groups concerned with exercising power or influence decision making , political power

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Example of groups that has to do with party ?

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Political party , trade unions , pressure groups , charities

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How is party linked to class ?

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Many trade unions represent groups within the working class

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Trade unions , political party , pressure groups and charities try to do what ?

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Exercise change or power through the government

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What does Barron and Norris argue about the economy ?

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Economy is divided into two sectors

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What does the dual labour market consist of according to Barron and Noris ?

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Primary labour market and secondary labour market

30
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What is the primary labour market ?

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Secure, well paid jobs

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What is secondary labour market ?

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Low pay and poor security

32
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Primary labour market and secondary labour market, comes from where ?

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Dual labour market

33
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What labour market does the working class concentrate in ?

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Secondary labour market

34
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What labour market is the middle class concentrated in ?

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Primary labour market

35
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What is social closure according to Barron and Norris ?

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Exclusion of some people from membership of certain status groups

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What does Barron and Norris say the primary labour market is guilty of ?

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Of social closure

37
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Exclusion of certain membership is certain status groups is the definition of what ?

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Social closure

38
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What are the evaluation of Barron and Norris ?

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  • simplistic ?
  • a dated model ?
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What does simplicity evaluation of Barron and Norris say ?

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Barron claims that there are two types of jobs , primary and secondary labour market but there’s more of a spectrum of different jobs rather than good or bad jobs

40
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What is a dated model evaluation of Barron and Norris ?

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Worse jobs are increasing in quality due to workers right and increasing knowledge of healthcare and other concerns

41
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What is the evaluation of Weber ?

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  • What is the solution ?
  • subjective ?
42
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What does what is the solution say ?

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Weber fails to offer methods to improve society or the vision of what a better society would look like beyond class, party, status
- feminist problem is patriarchy, Marxist is Revolution to abolish capitalism

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What does the subjective evaluation say ?

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Can be much disagreement on what has high status , party power or higher class but not everyone can agree what that certain individual has party power

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