COMS 2003 Lecture 3: COMS WEEK 3
19 Dec 2016
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Human relations are social communible, they are expressed in many things but manly themselves i. e material things. Capitalism new people are working for themselves, and in return what they get is a wage. Abstraction- people now produce things for abstract concepts like wages or profit so what was then done for profit is now considered as an individual gain. Eg commodity fettish: ambivalence and unease, capacity for speech, dominance for vison. Subjects to citizens, going from knowing everyone in that village, to never seeing each other, living in huts, to living in mansions and others in crowded apartments. Old system to the new system: struggle for power, cities were frightening for the villagers moving to big cities, they feel cramped. Robert e park the natural history of the newspaper, Talks of the village transition to the city. Ideology: relates to the american dream, everyone can be rich or better themselves however they want to.
