SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Corporatism, Masculinity, Individualism
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According to marx, it is shaped by historical forces. Relations between major social groups or classes involved in production. Employers paying their employees less, and just enough to maintain worker at subsistence level. Employees feel alienated if they do not make much pay or do feel a part of their work. Talks about first 2 agreements in partnerships of agreements in governments. Provide employment when you sell these partnerships, what happens is that companies win, and government loses. Decline in the distance between those with low and high status & power. Increase in importance of individual vs. the social group. 3 sets of explanation for industrialization: classical economic explanation, starts with adam smith. Thought human nature was the reason why we have industrialization, it was inevitable, but there were some problems: two problems with this explanation b. i. Does not explain why it occurred, when/where/how it did b. ii. Does not explain variation: marx, his three objectives: a. i.
