SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Communist Society, Verstehen, False Consciousness

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas E Macias

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Ma(cid:396)(cid:454)"s thoughts o(cid:374) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455: value, human beings provide the labor for producing material goods. In capitalism, some people work, others simply own the means of production: capitalism demands economic growth, but it eventually runs out of profits, his theory of society implied an inevitable path to social revolution. Ma(cid:396)(cid:454)"s politi(cid:272)al goals: political action, needed to overthrow the ruling class, false consciousness, a distraction from political action, communist society, everybody works, property communally owned, capitalism, necessary stage, not all bad. Rationalization: modern society increasingly concerned with efficiency, calculability, and predictability. How society functions, division of labor, anomie, critical of modernization. Science (cid:862) o(cid:272)iolog(cid:455) should be rigorous, test theories, and (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) fa(cid:272)ts(cid:863) (cid:862)mate(cid:396)ialis(cid:373) conflict/exploitation, should. Critical of capitalism demonstrate how workers are exploited by (cid:272)apitalists(cid:863) Functionalists, important for society, order and balance are provides moral normal state of standards. Relgiion is the (cid:862)opiate of the (cid:373)asses(cid:863) a(cid:374)d distracts workers from the common struggle.