SOCB42H3 Lecture 9: Lecture 9
Document Summary
Learn basic concepts that marx uses to describe and analyse capitalist economy. Understand the connection between the basic characteristics of capitalism and the inevitability of its demise, as marx understood it. Understand that commodity fetishism represents an instance of false consciousness imperfect understanding of society, caused by the structure of that society. Understand that commodification, fetishism and other economic phenomena are a part of any market transaction, even in a non-traditional one, such as organ trafficking. Scheper-hughes, nancy (2001) commodity fetishism in organ trafficking , body and. Questions to guide the reading/to think about ahead of time for students. Understand that this phenomenon can be analyzed from various standpoints: economic, social-inequality, human-rights (including the questions or consent, privilege of donors and recipients etc. The author often puts the word donor in quotation marks. Understand that the author uses the word fetish in its original anthropological sense: as an object embodying extraordinary (including magical) powers.
