Week 9 Flashcards
Social differentiation
Separation of social status, rules, and divisions of labour in society
Should social differentiation lead to social inequality?
No
Fordism
A capitalist accumulation strategy
What does fordism entail?
Mass production fur mass consumption
Labour market segmentation
Separation of the labour market into sectors of good and bad jobs
Primary labour market
Non-unionized, low pay, part time, temp work for females, immigrants, and radicalized workers
Reserve army of labour
People willing to take precarious or part time jobstinen there is demand in the labour market and would remain unemployed for prolongériods
Why did the Neo liberal ideology emerge?
To justify the changes in the economy and government as an ideological rejection of the welfare state
What type of agenda did the Neo liberals follow
Economically liberal
Politically conservative
What is class (km)
Refers to a a group of people with a common relation to the means of production
Bourgeoise
Capital class, owner of means of production
Petite bourgeoisie
Class that owns some of the meant uf production but not a sufficient amount to survive by ownership alone
Proletariat
Working class. They do nut own means of production and must sell their labour power t0 survive
Lumpenproletariat
Underclass. The class of dispossessed who are marginal to the production process
What is false conscious?
Those who do not act according to their objective class interests
Class in itself
People who share a common relationship to the means of production
Class fur itself
Aware of their common interests
Weber adopted a multidimensional approach to stratification focusing on what?
Interplay among wealth, prestige, and power
What is the vertical mosaic and what did dit snow?
The first systematic empirical sociological analysis of class and status
Pointed out that wealth was concentrated in Canada and connected to gender and ethnicity
What dues social inequality reflect?
Characteristics of society
Social inequality is more prevalent in which society ?
Agricultural societies
What does demand for labour result in?
Emergence of slavery
Feudal societies
Caste systems → groups ascribed social status → bonded on land = don’t move
Capitalist societies
Free of bondage → could sell their labour freely
Fordism was the dominant accumulation strategy untill….
1970 crisis
Why did the industrialized labor force do well in the 1970’s
Because of labour market segmentation
What did neoliberals defend?
Globalization and austerity programs in order to be more competitive
What did Karl Marx say about society?
Society is characterized by class conflict
Conflict between which 2 groups is inevitable?
Bourgeoisie and proletariat
Symbolic interactionist on stratification
Interested on how at was created not experienced
Open stratification system
Social inequalities are achieved
Closed stratification system
Little to no possibility to move up
