Discuss how an individual's described social class position at birth may affect what Max Weber called life chances, or the capability of individual to attain the following "good things" that a society values:
- good health care
- longevity
- a good job
- security
- status
- wealth
- power
- prestige
Discuss how life chances might affect an individual's life goals (positive or negative).
In what ways manner life chances be irrelevant?
Provide examples of how the concept of life chances operates in following systems:
- a caste system
- a class system
- a one-party, Communist system (such as China)