Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Tradition, Posthumanism, Working Class Culture
20 Oct 2017
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Humans are innately creative: we were productive and creative; we had to create, make over the world; innate creativity. Dialectical materialism: the progressive self-creation of humans in interaction with their material environment dialectical process; materials dictated life; people interact with the world, materials, and materials change people"s needs. History is the story of this process the continuous creation, satisfaction and recreation of human needs and contexts. Around human"s productive activity, certain organizational forms coalesce: modes of production. History can be broken down into different modes of production: slave societies, feudal societies, industrial capitalism, post-industrial capitalism, socialism. We are not born knowing how and what to think about the world. Consciousness is a social product coming out from the material experiences in the world. Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.
