SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Class Conflict, European Social Movement, Instrumental And Value Rationality
Document Summary
The emergence of post-industrial society in capitalist world. Post-fordism an knowledge economy; the rise of information society": [ production of wealth depends on circulating, utilizing and controlling information , market institutions can make money without producing anything. Youtube: utilizing information is a source of wealth in an knowledge based, post- Problem = the power of tehcnocrats, the use of instrumental rationality to create a. Goal of nsm theories = to reclaim freedom lost in this new process; thus new social movements emerge; individuals become rebel subjects": individuals power are lost in this post-fordist economic system. Individuals are more in the power of someone they don"t see. Key issue: struggle over historicity": historicity = the way in which society produces and reproduces itself. There are 2 groups of actors: those who direct self-production and transformation of society. Who control utilization and flow of information: those who are subjected to its effects.
