Social Classes

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Social Classes

• Social classes
• key actors in social forces theory
• commonly defined in one of two ways
• Marxist definitions
• (based on relationship to the means of
  production)
• bourgeoisie (middle class)
• Owners of the means of production under
  capitalism
• Proletariat (working class)
• Those who have only their own labor power in a
  capitalist system
• Sociological definitions
• (based on occupational categories)
• Middle class
• professionals, managers, and white-collar office
  workers
• Working class
• "blue collar factory workers

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Authoritarian resilience

• Capacity of the state to govern effectively
  with non-democratic institutions

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Nathans 4 aspects of resilience

• Norm-bound succession
• Meritocratic, not factional, promotion of elites
• Differentiation and specialization of political
  institutions
• Institutional channels for popular political
  participation (although still controlled by state)

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Types of states in Bellin

• Developmental state
• Technocratic bureaucracy with mission to promote
  growth, prosperity
• Patrimonial state
• Personalistic bureaucracy with use of state
  office for personal gain

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Corporatism in Bellin

• A system of interest representation in which a
  group is recognized/licensed by the state in
  exchange for limitations on its
  political/economic demands.
• Often refers to state recognition of organized
  labor, giving labor certain benefits, including a
  seat at the table alongside the state and
  business interests in exchange for limits on
  strikes, etc.