Week 2 Readings 

________: attitudes, behaviours, and pervasive and systematic social arrangements by which members of one group are exploited and subordinated while members of another group are granted privileges.

________: ideas or ideals that sustain a regime.

Power: the probability, within a(n) ________, of realizing ones own even against resistance, regardless of the basis on which this probability rests.

________= helps maintain the structure of capitalist society.

________ limits the freedom and exercise of power by the state.

_____ sociology: societies = totalities, attempted to understand relationships as a whole.

________: proletariat (working class) would emerge victorious from a revolutionary confrontation with the capitalists.

_____ sociology: attempted to understand particular institutions.

________: a continuous conflict over the control of scarce material and symbolic.

________: people who share a common occupational /professional position + values /lifestyle.

________: politics, state, religion, philosophy.

____ ____: alienation, no freedom.

_____: central feature to the patterns of inequality.

________: individuals interact in a face-to-face manner.

________: interactions take place in an impersonal fashion, involving only 1 aspect of ones self.

________: rape and violence against women are accepted as a common feature of society.

____ ____: the working class becomes aware of itself as a class.

________: all political /social phenomena are caused by the economic substructure of society.

________= economy; it shapes all institutions.

Interrelationships of political + social phenomenon

All political/social phenomena are caused by the economic substructure of society

integration of societies + protection of individual liberties

the economy is not a neutral institution

social cooperation between workers to create wealth, means of production are controlled by the state

means of production are collectively owned by the workers themselves

inevitability of historical change

Worsening financial conditions of the average worker → _______: increasing misery

the working class becomes aware of itself as a class

law and administration + great leadership figures

a continuous conflict over the control of scarce material and symbolic

people who share a common occupational/professional position + values/lifestyle

class, status groups, parties

status, status group, ideological/normative power

wealth, classes, economic power

rulership, party, political power