Friday, May 2, 2014

Max Weber - Class


My family.  In the middle is my grandpa and grandma.  Those other women are all my grandmother's sisters. They are all part of America's working class.  Weber states that class exists in the economic order.  He also has three different criteria in order to distinguish the group as a class.  The first is that the people have common specific causes in their life chances.  Yup, this group depicted is depression era raised and labor job intensive.  Second, the class is defined by economic interests of goods and opportunities for income.  Third, this class is represented under conditions made by commodities and labor markets.  All five of this individuals shared the same economic situation.  They all are service or labor workers.  We have the telephone company, the nurse, the college secretary, the raisin board secretary, and two laborers.  They were not wealthy.  They were not poor.

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