weberianism

• Weber was described as the ghost of Marx
• He said that social inequality was because of 3 things, these were : Class, status and party
• Weberians believe that some people have better life chances than others
• they believe that social class is a group of people who have similar market and work situations
• they also believe that people can have social mobility between classes

• Both Marx and Weber were concerned with who owns private property and who doesn't
• both use a macro-structural approach
• both saw the economic system of production as being an important source of social class

• Weber rejected the 2 class model
• He rejected that power was determined by ownership or non-ownership of the means of production
• Weber identified 3 separate sources of power which he said had direct effort on people's lives

• men and women have different places to do with horizontal and vertical segregation
• Baron and Norris (1976) believe that there are 2 labour markets: primary (high pay and secure jobs) and secondary (low pay with poor promotion)
• women are more likely than men to be in the secondary labour market.

• Ethnicity is more important than economic differences when explaining inequalities
• Marginalised and almost underclass

studies

• Parkin (1968)- minority ethnic groups are negatively privileged status groups- the glass ceiling becomes a concrete one- this means that for some groups, you can't see through the glass ceiling and certainly cannot reach the top jobs, this could then link to institutional racism.
• Rex and Moore (1967)- minority groups are severly disadvantaged in the labour market- life chances and market position is bad compared to what it is for white people