SOAN 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Protestant Work Ethic, Wage Slavery, Social Alienation
7 Oct 2016
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The gang of three - marx, durkheim, weber. The industrial revolution: mass production: the industrial society, labour process. Zygmunt baumans liquid modernity and consuming lives . Transition from feudalism to capitalism (revolution because it is a complete overhauling of the system) Society is divided into a landowning class and a landless class. Violence by propertied class or newly formed governments in service of the landowners. Society is now divided into a landowning class and a landless class throughout. Tuesday, september 20, 2016 much of the world. Means of production (non human, land machines, factories etc) Human labour power for sale (proletariat or working class) Organized and controlled by owners and drive by pro t motive. Capitalism is expansionist in nature and so this division is ever increasing as foraging peoples are pushed into remote regions of the planet (desert, tropical rainforest, extreme northern climates etc) Karl marx: species being and alienation, con ict theory, modes of production.
