SOC101Y1 Lecture : SOC207 Lecture 2.docx
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Alienation and work karl marx"s essay on alienation people use this to measure weather or not work is alienating in society marx has four dimensions of alienation: general background on alienation, theoretical influences: hegel. Key philosophical sources of karl marx"s theory of alienation: hegel he made the distinction between masters and slaves in societies. Masters in society are the ones who perform the mental and intellectual work. Masters on one side have a wonderful world but on the practical side they"re dependant on their servants to do the work for them. For servants in general they"re completely dependent intellectually on their masters and masters are dependent physically on their servants. Juxtaposition between the two and the relationship between the two. If this did happen and strike went on for a long time, only servants would survive because they know how the system is run.
