SOCY 275 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Prenatal Care, Psychological Abuse, Physical Abuse

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 275
• Professor: Stephen Baron

Document Summary

People who own the means of production (bourgeois) and people who are selling their labor power, creating the labor for a wage (proletariat), bourgeois sell that labor for a surplus value. Must have an ideology for this theory to work, ideology communicated through: super structure, media, law, education system, enforcing of this law through the state (military or state) Biggest crime is keeping the surplus value, marx argues that the surplus belongs to the workers. Crimes of accommodation- crimes people engage in to survive, crime, theft, violent offences which are associated with the stress of living under these adverse conditions. Kingston, regoli, and hewitt- theory of differential oppression. Focuses heavily on children- healthy child development requires that the social context provide opportunities to fulfill physical, psychological, intellectual, and social development needs. Children are oppressed- oppression is anything that constraints, restricts, or prevents anyone from experiencing essential attributes of human life.