SOCI 1001H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Commodification, Complex Number, Rationality

• School: Trent University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001H
• Professor: White Debra

Document Summary

First social thinkers to systematically try to make sense of the nature of the evolving modern industrial capitalist society. Moving into a new era from traditional to industry/ urban based capitalism. Sociology was emerging out of this change. The outcomes created the structures that we still live with today. Their theories because the foundational building blocks of society and are still of great value today. The starting point to understanding any society is understanding the underlying system of producing things. Systems of production distribution consumption. How these processes of production/ consumption are socially organized determines the wide structures of society. Producing things is the fundamental starting point; produce what you need and organize yourselves around that. Ex. / hunting and gathering society has its own system and how the produce is shared. Mode of production" [means of production and relations of production] Means of production [advanced tools, capital investment: ex. / technologies, materials, property.