SOC 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Herbert Marcuse, List Of Marvel Comics Characters: D, Frankfurt School

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

One-dimensional man: studies in the ideology of advanced industrial society. Key member of the frankfurt school frankfurt school - huge impact on us political philosophy, sociology and politics. Philosophy, social theory and politics re (and should be) inseparable fled to usa with the rise of nazism in germany interested in analyzing capitalism and bringing about the end of it. One key concern of marcuse was critical thinking and human freedom to what point are human free, kept in a state of ignorance. Critical theory - analysis of the prevailing modes of dominance/oppression in society. Solving a wide range of social problems required fundamental social restructuring. Very different from the left/progressive politics today. Where is the revolutionary proletariat in the usa in 1950s the working class want social mobility not revolutionary change the opposition of the working class? workers have become integrated" into the system which provides a neutralization of equality.