SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Breakfast Cereal
28 Feb 2017
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The rise of classes meant greater societal complexity and opposing class interests. A few people appropriate the surplus produced by others, which leads to gross inequalities of wealth and power. While many of us do not benefit from such an economic arrangement, most of us come to support it. The merging of the technology and content of the telecommunications, entertainment, publishing, and broadcasting industries. The control that the ruling class has over a society"s belief system. Capitalism itself was simultaneously a step forward and a step backwards for humans. They are a struggle of values, one that emphasizes that we" and the other that emphasizes the. Although all of us have equality of opportunity, without equality of condition many of our rights and freedoms are absolutely meaningless. A body of assumptions, ideas, and values that combine into a coherent world-view.
