SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Yellow Wallpaper, Marx'S Theory Of Alienation, Georg Simmel
29 Jun 2015
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Key terms: alienation, money, relation between bourgeoisie and proitearate, communism. Marx: historical materialism key terms: biography, context, historical materialism, model of society, ideology. Manchester, first city to give rise to the industrial revolution. Engels manager of textile factory which marx saw, did not approve, thought it was birth of capitalism. Industrial revolution: feudalism to capitalism, feudalism - nobility vs. peasantry. *bourgeois capitalists (class that owns and controls the means of production) vs *proletariat (class that sells its labor power to survive) Historical materialism: against idealism/primacy of material reality over ideas. Marx a troll towards hegel and descartes, thinks they were wrong. ** marx said key to understanding history is to understand labor, what and how material is produced, and our material life. Marx believed base of the model of society is economics. In other words, the economic dimension of society determines the political system, the legal system and the cultural system, what people believe and the ideas that they hold.
