SOC263H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kingsley Davis, Wilbert E. Moore, Melvin Tumin
Document Summary
Marx dominant ideology the ruling class and the ideas that emerge from it. Individuals that do not own the means of production are subject to the ruling class: the ruling class controls the resources. According to marx once ppl become aware of their oppression they gain class consciousness. In most periods there is a class and then the subordinate classes. For marx all history is the history of struggle btwn 2 opposing forces. Feudal society has not done away with class antagonism but instead has established new forms of oppression and struggle. For marx this period of primitive communism (hunter-gatherer society) is free of this type of social stratification: this only exists when they produce surplus. Advanced communism was made to replace the capitalist society: can be also used as the dictator proletariat. All human societies have been characterized by one who ones and controls the means of production and the other group which does not own anything.
