Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Frankfurt School, Dialectical Materialism, False Consciousness

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2240E
• Professor: Brendan Murphy

Document Summary

He got arrested and jacked up by mussolini: we have to prevent that this mind continue thinking . All that we know about his political theories are from his prison notebooks. Gramsci said because of hegemony: check your notes for this. Traditional: what we have come to know as a brain, they believe to be independent of the dominant social group, those who develop from within their own class. The proles can generate organic intellectuals: but he wanted the intellect to stay in interest of the class. Gramsci thinks that traditional intellectual is a part of the working class. Everyone is an intellectual: to say someone is not an intellectual you"re not referring to their intelligence it"s more how they function within society. Base: forces and relations of production: division of labour and all of the stuff within those relations. Super structure: all of the things on top of base (education, government, rituals, culture, etc. )