SOCIOL 2SS3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Proletariat, Surplus Labour, Tribalism
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Work exists beyond the context of paid labour. But economic relations are an important sociological entryway into thinking about the organization of work. Economy: social institutions through which a society"s resources (goods and services) are managed (there are different kinds of management, sociologists treat this as fundamental/ major institution of society. Goods: physical objects we find, grow or make to meet our needs and others" needs. Commodities: something bought, sold or exchanged in the market (marx has a definition of this) Colonialism sets base of who is in charge tied to race, class and gender. Tribalism: division of labour: hunting, fishing and gathering, economy: work was tied to survival. There was movement to different spaces/ places when there were no more resources for people to extract, so they moved somewhere new for survival: usufruct: the distribution of resources according to need. Agricultural revolution agrarian/ slave societies (1100 bce 1800 ce)
