SY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Profit Motive, Feudalism, Bourgeoisie
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3 modes: ancient- slavery, feudalism- agrarian serf and landlord, capitalism- (highest mode of production scale of productions was the highest) class struggle, all societies produced economic surplus. In all societies haves and have have not"s was engaged in a. The have not"s - owned only their labor power: profit resulted from the exploitation of worker"s surplus, in capitalist society conflict, inevitable between bourgeoisie, profit motive drove the capitalist system (owners) and proletariat (workers) Came from paying workers less than true way: predicted that class consciousness would have led to a revolution that would lead to a classless society and everything would be shared equally. Emile durkheim (1858-1917: concerned with restoring social order, wanted to use science to create a better society, interested in what held individuals in societies together. Saw this fundamentally coming down to social integration and connectedness. Major contributions: wrote a book called rules of sociological method.
