SOSC 1185 Lecture Notes - Sociobiology, Gender Studies, Intersectionality
16 Oct 2012
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Focus on what people produce & how they produce it, emphasizes material. Not a theory that demonstrates the explanation of things that works in any time. Says that we need to be historically, geographically specific because things conditions. period anywhere in the world change. The focus is on how and where something is produced. Macro-level structural theory: how people are coming together in organization in order to survive shaping our cultural and structural lives. Initial focus on class as critical to status & power. 2 relations (via relations to mode of production). A conflict approach, emphasizes class conflict based on who controls the means of production. These groups in society struggle to keep their positions. Or, they struggle to move up a class. A lot of focus around class diff. class in society are going to be in conflict/ compete with each other. Higher classes get more privileges, and power.
