Social Classes

1. 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

2. Authoritarian resilience • “Capacity of the state to govern effectively” with non-democratic institutions

3. Nathan’s 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)

4. 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

5. 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.