SOC227H5 Lecture 2: soc227 Lecture 2 Notes.docx
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Session #2: theories, post-industrialization, the state, current issues. The relationship between technological development and social culture. Technology: application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes. Deterministic theory: our free will does not play a role at all, it"s all about controlled work. Relations of production: the sum total of social relationships that people must enter into, in order to survive, to produce and reproduce their means of life. Surplus value: the excess of value produced than what workers are paid for. Alienation: a condition of workers in a capitalist economy, resulting from a lack of identity with the products of their labor and a sense of being controlled or exploited. Corporatism: the control of state or organizations by non-interest groups. Power distance: refers to the way in which power is distributed and the extent to which the less powerful accept that power is distributed unequally.
