SOCI 3450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Wage Labour, Dialectical Materialism, Social Evolution
21 Nov 2017
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Society is grounded upon inequality in society and competition. Power is the core of all social relationships; scarce and unequally divided among members of society. Social values and the dominant ideology are the vehicles by which the powerful promote their own intersts at the expense of the weak. Rooted in the writings of machiavelli, hobbes and rousseau. Use/exchange/surplus value are all terms that are used in sociology that marx came up with: different variations of marxism humanist marxism, scientific marxism, feminist marxism, Neo marxism, postmodern marxism: marxism and its work is considered a member of crt (critical race theory) Conflict theory is different than functionalism because it seeks to change society and its inequalities. The influence of frederick engels (1820 1895: scientific socialism, the start of a drift towards positivism and science. The form of historical movement is the result of conficting opposites in all societies. (cid:862)the co(cid:374)fli(cid:272)t of opposites is a struggle (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) a(cid:272)tual a(cid:374)d pote(cid:374)tial (cid:449)orlds. (cid:863)
