SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dialectic, Feudalism, Bourgeoisie
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->theory of history designed to show you how these groups are themselves inserted in a large period of history. ->weber has all sorts of groups (class, status, party) ->in some sense that set of divisions is something that is like a ball moving through time. ->set of contradictions that arise in history and get resolves in history. ->contradictions: historical force that generates its own opposite (those two forces come into conflict, and out of the conflict comes a transformative new possibility) ->new thing formed out of conflict becomes new thesis, antithesis. ->we can always create antithesis to things by putting not in front of an idea. ->abstract idea of right generates wrong, abstract of good generates bad, idea of devalued group creates idea of valued group. ->always analyzing forms of human social cooperation, but analyzing them dialectically. ->saying the thing and the opposite coexist-->two sides of same historical process.
