SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Montesquieu, Proletariat, Social Change
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Professor hall and giddens are the umbrella frameworks of how we are going to understand marx, hall"s frame. They are friends in one sense, the 3 authors recognise that philosophy will men to recover his alienated self through transformative criticism, but they have differences. Feuerbach and marx assert the primacy of the material world, whereas hegel is more idealistic, he thinks the mind will be the force that creates reality. He doesn"t develop much more the next idea: how universal suffrage is a characteristic of democracy. Unlike hegel and feuerbach: we need to change the world (praxis) The proletariat will being about the change. Giddens try to explain why the proletariat is the source of change (p. 8: praxis, alienation. Marx tries to understand reality, he"s a very strong critic of the social science, one of the targets is about political economy, they cannot understand reality as it actually is.
