SOCY 325 Lecture Notes - Tradition, Feudalism, Social Forces
14 Dec 2013
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Diffenent way of looking at society as an objective reality. Compares and contrasts berger and luckman -focusing on interaction in everyday life, typification, meaning systems, signs, language. Habitualized action to traditional action, to social systems that are objective through legimtation. Production is the most essential feature of societies. Marx focuses more on actions rather than thoughts from berger and luckman. Real individuals their activities and their material conditions in which they live. Material conditions shape human life, they have to have food and shelter. Production in general- every society has to produce. Eg communist, slave societies, feudal societies, capitalist societies. History and change are fundamental to human production. Humans without choice are born into a social world. Born into a set of social relations. determines the rest of their lives. We are born into a world where there already exists material forces of production.
