SOC216H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cash Machine, Bourgeoisie, Payphone
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Go to a civil court, go to a small claims court . Marx viewed society as primarily an uneasy relationship between two groups with incompatible economic interests: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (the group with the power) In the base, at the bottom we have the means of production (fetal society: farmers). The bases dictates what the super structure looks like. Super structure maintains and legitimizes the base, and allows it to keep going. Super structure maintains the power of the bourgeoisie. Two social classes: bourgeoisie, and the polteriate. Needs of capital dictate law (base superstructure) - (e. g. chambliss) Laws allows the bourgeoisie to maintain their power. Capitalism is also a set of ideas, including ideas about the value of work, and this can be. In those instances, where the state tries to regulate capital, capitalists find ways to avoid it (e. g. english factory acts) expressed through law (though not only) - e. g. safe streets act.
