ISS 315 Lecture 2:
17 Jan 2019
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Society is a complex system characterized by inequality and conflict leading to social change. Major theories: evolution of society, pre-class societies. Ownership of property, the start of farming, beginning of inequality: ancient society. Start of slavery, extreme inequality: feudal society. Powerful families give protection to farmers, becoming their lords : capitalist society industrialization begins, capitalism. In a capitalist society, inequality exists since home, cars, etc. are owned by individuals: cooperative capitalism. Home, cars, etc. are owned by group of individuals such as a tribe, a village: manufacturing capitalism. Shoemaker gets money for the shoes that he makes: modern capitalism. Workers are no longer in control of their product. Shoemaker works for nike: forces of production the things you need to produce, labor. Capital, infrastructure, machinery, and technical knowledge: raw materials, mode of production how things are produced, the way things are produced have changed over time. We used to have manual labors and now most things are produced by machines.
