SOC 4144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reproductive Rights, Financialization, Gag Rule

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 4144
• Professor: Willow Scobie

Document Summary

Historical materialism: men enter into relation that are indispensable and independent of their will that correspond to a stage of development of their material forces. The mode of production is a determining structure it determines the superstructure. That superstructure is determined by how they produce the basic things they need to survive. Society changes to reflect the needs of the things we produce. At a certain stage, material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production. Definitive border, we now have national parks, green spaces. Three ways to look at it (how to look at the changes according to marx): Class societies characterized by alienation slavery, feudalism, capitalism. Classless, un-alienated societies communism (this is how we advance the interests of all humans marx says) Marx imagined the close of the period of inequalities, exploitation and human misery: by redistributing wealth globally and equally would bring an end to ^