Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Stratification pt2.
- Power is the
ability to
impose one's
will on other
- Less powerful groups may
organize and resist; and
organization and resistance are
themselves based of power
- Often invisible
- Authority is legitimate,
institutionalized power that rests on
moral consent. Evokes compliance
without force beause people view it as
valid
- Feudism is a legal arrangement that started early. it
was a requirement for them to give tribute to the
landlords (harvest). Open their storehouses in case
crops failed.
- Symbolic relationship between peasant and landlord
- Marx Conflict Theory
- Exploitation of workers
- Factory Assimilation shows that it is not happy
because the owners are motivated by only profift.
Their goal would be to have bigger factories and
keep wages low
- Class consciousness is when workers became aware
of this exploitation
- Encouraged the growth of unions and workers' political parties
- The bourgeoisie were powerful
and greedy, little incentive to
improve conditions
- Class by Marx says that it is
determined by a person's
relationship to the means of
production
- Bourgeoisie and Proletariat
- Bourgeoisie are owners of the means of
production. They don't do labour and get
profits.
- Proletariat are the working class
and do physical labour. They earn
wages.
- Table can be exchanged
for something: money or
exchange value
- Marx: the problem with profit
- Marx says relations are
reduced to
money
relations
- Man is reduced to machine.
"Making ends meet"
- Commodity fetishism is the people who earn
wages want to have money. We build
commodities into a fetish; they have a value
on objects.
- Critque of Marx
- Marx did not see some aspects
of capitalist development
- Industrial societies did not polarize into two
opposed classes engaged in bitter conflict
- Technology actually helped workers earn more
- Communism took place in
semi-industrialized
countries like Russia
- Stratification in Education:
Homogenizing and Sorting
- Teach young people the key capacities of
communication, coordination, and economic
productivity
- Create homogeneity out of diversity through curriculum
- Sort students into paths that
determine their future social classes
- Mass Education
- Religion is no longer
the main source from
knowledge
- Only an importance to the family is
as an agent of socialization
- Universal mass education is
only recently important
- Huge social change
- Replacing family and religion with centralized and rationalized system created
strong pressures toward uniformity and standardization
- Rise of Mass Schooling
- Printing press: enabled literacy to
spread beyond elite circles
- Protestantism: protestants encouraged people to read scriptures
- Democracy has led to free education for all children
- Industrialization is mass education that is widely recgonized
as an absolute necessity for creating an industrial economy
- Highly productive economy requires an education system
- Credential inflation means it takes more
certificates or degrees to qualify for a particular
job
- Professionalization fuels it. It occurs when members of an
occupation insist that people earn certain credentials to enter
the occupation
- Bourdieu says that education is central to creation and transmission of
cultural capital which is leaning skills that ensure superioir positions in
productive activity
- Scarce and valuable because it is expensive and difficult to acquire
- Learning involves discipline or pedagogic violence
which is the application by teachers of punishments
intended to discourage any deviation from the dominant
culture