Notes - Class, Status, Party, Weber, M. (2009 ) \'Class, Status, Party\', in From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Gerth, H.H. & Mills, C. Wright PDF

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Notes - Class, Status, Party, Weber, M. (2009 ) 'Class, Status, Party', in From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Gerth, H.H. & Mills, C. Wright...

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Class, Status, Party, Weber, M. (2009) 'Class, Status, Party', in!From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Gerth, H.H. & Mills, C. Wright Economically determined power and the social order - Legal orders directly influence the distribution of power within a community. - People do not strive just for economic power so they become rich but they also try and achieve it in order to be socially honoured. Social honour can also be gained through political power - Law helps someone keep the power or honor, however also they need to have social order and economic order. Determination of class situation by market situation - A class is people who have a common specific casual component of their life chances which is represented by economic interests in the possession of goods and opportunities for income under the conditions of commodity or labour markets. - ‘Property’ and ‘lack of property’ are the basic categories of class situations. There are sub categories within this which are the kind of property to create returns and the kind of services that can be provided on the market. - Class situation is market situation Communal action flowing from class interest - Class is created by economic interest - Despite people having the same class situation the direction of the workers interests may differ from the other people in the same class situation due to how well he is qualified for the task. Interests also may depend on whether there is a communal action between the people in the class. - Communal action comes from whether the members have similar cultural conditions, especially intellectual. Types of class struggle - Class does not constitute a community. - Class situations occur from whether methods of production are owned by the individual or are not owned by the individual. - Class situations is action between people of different classes. Class situations are determined by the labor market, the commodities market and the capitalistic enterprise. - Class situations had led from consumption credit towards competitive struggles on the commodity market and price wars on the labour market. - State of affairs had been instrumental on the role that the class situation plays in political parties. The threatened status groups form alliances with the proletariat against the bourgeoisie Status Honor - Status groups are communities - Status situation is any specific, positive or negative social estimation of honour. - People who have property and who do not have property can belong to the same status group. Ethnic Segregation and Caste - Status distinctions are through conventions, laws and rituals. - Status structure difference may only be their ethnicity which shows the segregation of different ethnicities. - The caste is where ethnic communities live with each other and believe in a blood relationship and exclude marriage and intercourse. Caste situation is from pariah people. - They form communities and acquire traditional jobs of art and segregate themselves from others. - An example of a caste situation is Jews. Status Privileges - Status and the ideal and material goods have a link. There are material monopolies

- The higher your status you will wear special outfits, eat special food an play certain musical instruments.

- Material monopolies make the group exclusive. - Certain goods become monopolised by status groups to maintain their way of life - Status groups are the specific bearers of all conventions " Economic conditions and effects of status stratification

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