SOC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Class Conflict, Protestant Reformation, Calvinism

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

Marx key concept: the struggle between segments of society over valued resources. Capitalists: own factories and productive enterprises of profits (own everything and workers (proletarians) do their bidding. Social institutions: major spheres of social life, or societal subsystems, organized to meet basic human need. To economic subsystems of production determines all other social institutions. The economy (infrastructure) dominates all major institutions & defines society. Family, politics, religion (superstructure) control the proletariat creates ideology . False consciousness: explanations of social problems in individuals shortcoming, not society"s flaws. Alienation: the experience of isolation and misery resulting from powerlessness. As ppl develop technology to gain power over the world, the capitalist economy gains more control over ppl. The only way out of capitalism is to remake society. Socialism: is a system of production that could provides for the social needs of all. Marx believed that the working majority would realize they held the key to a better future.