SOC225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Morphine, Anomie, Left Realism
1 Aug 2018
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The father of conflict theory was karl marx. Karl marx stated that religion is the opiate of the masses. Opium is a drug (endorphins) = morphine, codeine, heroin. Marx is stating that religion is making one follow rules, behave and sucking it up an going away. Marx said one is alienated against three things: Capitalism produces competition and competition is bad because it pro separation/isolation of people. No one cares what happens to others because it produces independen caring other social aspects of the social world. Capitalism and industrial revolution produces this routine and one is no products. One gets little money for the products they produce. The routine isolates people from what they are producing. Not getting a lot of money for the products they produce. He studied suicide around the countries that were capitalized or where industrial revolu. Anomie: a sense of normalness and being comfortable about being disconnected or isolated.
