Stratification pt2.

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Mind Map on Stratification pt2., created by caitlin7211 on 12/07/2013.
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Stratification pt2.
  1. Power is the ability to impose one's will on other
    1. Less powerful groups may organize and resist; and organization and resistance are themselves based of power
      1. Often invisible
        1. Authority is legitimate, institutionalized power that rests on moral consent. Evokes compliance without force beause people view it as valid
        2. 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.
          1. Symbolic relationship between peasant and landlord
          2. Marx Conflict Theory
            1. Exploitation of workers
              1. 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
                1. Class consciousness is when workers became aware of this exploitation
                  1. Encouraged the growth of unions and workers' political parties
                  2. The bourgeoisie were powerful and greedy, little incentive to improve conditions
                  3. Class by Marx says that it is determined by a person's relationship to the means of production
                  4. Bourgeoisie and Proletariat
                    1. Bourgeoisie are owners of the means of production. They don't do labour and get profits.
                      1. Proletariat are the working class and do physical labour. They earn wages.
                      2. Table can be exchanged for something: money or exchange value
                        1. Marx: the problem with profit
                          1. Marx says relations are reduced to money relations
                            1. Man is reduced to machine. "Making ends meet"
                              1. Commodity fetishism is the people who earn wages want to have money. We build commodities into a fetish; they have a value on objects.
                              2. Critque of Marx
                                1. Marx did not see some aspects of capitalist development
                                  1. Industrial societies did not polarize into two opposed classes engaged in bitter conflict
                                    1. Technology actually helped workers earn more
                                      1. Communism took place in semi-industrialized countries like Russia
                                    2. Stratification in Education: Homogenizing and Sorting
                                      1. Teach young people the key capacities of communication, coordination, and economic productivity
                                        1. Create homogeneity out of diversity through curriculum
                                          1. Sort students into paths that determine their future social classes
                                        2. Mass Education
                                          1. Religion is no longer the main source from knowledge
                                            1. Only an importance to the family is as an agent of socialization
                                              1. Universal mass education is only recently important
                                                1. Huge social change
                                                  1. Replacing family and religion with centralized and rationalized system created strong pressures toward uniformity and standardization
                                              2. Rise of Mass Schooling
                                                1. Printing press: enabled literacy to spread beyond elite circles
                                                  1. Protestantism: protestants encouraged people to read scriptures
                                                    1. Democracy has led to free education for all children
                                                      1. Industrialization is mass education that is widely recgonized as an absolute necessity for creating an industrial economy
                                                        1. Highly productive economy requires an education system
                                                        2. Credential inflation means it takes more certificates or degrees to qualify for a particular job
                                                          1. Professionalization fuels it. It occurs when members of an occupation insist that people earn certain credentials to enter the occupation
                                                        3. Bourdieu says that education is central to creation and transmission of cultural capital which is leaning skills that ensure superioir positions in productive activity
                                                          1. Scarce and valuable because it is expensive and difficult to acquire
                                                            1. Learning involves discipline or pedagogic violence which is the application by teachers of punishments intended to discourage any deviation from the dominant culture
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