SOC 3126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: For Marx, Class Conflict, Ludwig Feuerbach

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3126
• Professor: John Ngobi

Document Summary

If you want to bring about social change you need to irst understand how the world works - karl marx. Subject mater of the course: to understand what he said and how he inluenced sociology. Marxism refers to the theories the karl wrote about. It is collecive term to describe the various wriing of marx. Marxism argues that society progress through class struggle. Capitalism has internal struggles which eventually leads to socialism. Marx is aware that capitalism brings a lot of new opportuniies along with a lot of wars. Immiseraion of the poor. the state is run by the bourgeois. In a capitalist economy, the workers are not in control of what they produce. Marx is about change, he believes we can control our desiny. What shapes what we think is out material condiion. The materialist doctorine: we are shaped by our social condiions but there is room for change. The idea that nothing has been the same for ever.