SOC 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Communist Manifesto, Industrial Revolution, Social Change
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Focused on social stability and how society functions. Views social phenomena strictly in their capacity to safeguard social stability. Marx was a key figure in intellectual history. Marx showed the material & conflictual basis of social change. Marx contrasts greatly with structuralists and structural-functionalists focused on social. Marx introduced many problems that remain with us to this day. The communist manifesto is the easiest thing marx ever wrote. 19th c"s 3 of the most impt intellectuals. Marx was writing in response to extreme poverty following the industrial revolution in which. Society about change and about the struggle of social class to control the means of production. Social class: position in the economic arrangement not just monetary but social relationship. Means of production: physical and material tools that produce and reproduce society. Social change in means of production in 4 eras. Primitive life: family is the basic unit, patriarchal control of the means of production.
