SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Profit Maximization, Technological Determinism, Industrial Technology

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

500 word sound bite to 7,000 pages of detailed analysis. Premises: real individuals, their activity, their material conditions (gi, 1845) In the social production of their lives, humankind, independently of its will, enters determinate, necessary relations, relations of production that are appropriate to a determinate stage of development of their material forces of production. Totality of relations of production form economic infrastructure. The real basis of a legal, political, ideational superstructure. The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual process of life over all. Developed through process - dialectics: process of tension, contradiction and negation. Internal dynamic tension exists within society > ultimately lead to social change. Revolutionary change comes from internal contradictions existing within the. From forms of development of the productive forces, these relations [of production] infrastructure > change inevitable. Contradictory change into contradiction with the existing relations of production. transform into their fetters.