ANTHRO 3AC Study Guide - Final Guide: Proletariat, Class Conflict, Inside Out Music
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• economics, the base, where the material goods and relations of
productions are built
• class structure from within, lying underneath superstructure, how
do people meet their needs, relations of production, the
economy as the base
o Superstructure
• politics, education, religion, class relations within culture, societal
beliefs and values
• comes from above, cultural elements of life, validates
infrastructure by saying “its natural for people to be poor”
• Religion, education, politics
5. Dialectic (for Hegel versus for Marx)
o Dialectic:
• The dielectic is a logic that proceeds by negation and
overcoming
§ Example: Bud -> flower -> fruit
§ The Flower can't exist at the same time as the bud, but it
also can't exist without the thing that came before
• The dialectic involves a thesis, anti-thesis and eventually a
synthesis
• None of these can be reduced to each other
• The end goal od the dialectic is self-consciousness
o Hegel:
• Hegel is an idealist
• He believes that the diaalectic is how we evolve collectively as
we encounter the world and how our beliefs are challenged and
how we overcome it.
• Hegel presupposes that we know who we are by the existence
of others.
