Max Weber’s Life Chances

Explain how an individual's ascribed social class position at birth may 
affect what Max Weber called life chances, or the ability of an 
individual to attain the following "good things" that a society values: 
o	good health care

•	longevity

•	a good job

•	security

•	status

•	wealth

•	power

•	prestige
 
•	Describe how life chances may affect an individual's life goals 
(positive or negative).
 
•	In what ways may life chances be irrelevant?
 
•	Give examples of how the concept of life chances operates in the 
following systems: 
•	a caste system

•	a class system

•	a one-party, Communist system (such as China)

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