SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Sweatshop, Class Discrimination
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Know how to do practical, real life, essential things. Do not reflect on the world but have a direct relationship with the real world. Do not have an identity, limited or no rights. Actual servants (because they are so dependent on others and cant do anything themselves): the power in society is in the servants" hand, they are the powerful ones because with out them the system will collapse. They control the everyday world aspects that make survival possible: hegel (early thinker) stated that the solution to this problem is: 2 sides to human action: making/doing things and putting them out to the world . As humans we are constantly objectifying to others and getting something (reflections) back from them object subject. Objectifying is human nature, its how people define themselves and their world, it"s the essence of humanity. However: sometimes this may lead to alienation.
