SOSC 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mass Media, Commodity Money, Social Order
27 Oct 2014
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Mass media is used by government to control opinion. Government starts to take over what used to be done by the family e. g. babysitting child care. It"s not about taking care of society it"s about controlling capital. Main reason for police is to control protests from going against system as a whole. Capitalism has accomplished what no other system has been able to do, made world into a whole encompassing system. Materialism means you start with the material system of a society and count in production in a society and how that leads to the rest of the structure (does not mean striving for economic gain) Social relations (gather things, build things) it is about how they exchange and produce things surface) This leads to the ideas that they have. There is a concealed level of every society of who they produce and exchange things. Latent content (biography and psychological content) under manifest(how they are like on.
