SOCB42H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Commodification, Concept Map, Proletariat

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15 May 2017
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Sociological theory i lecture 4 karl marx capitalism, Critique: pre reading for active, critical engagement: Also looks at how wealth is a social product. Has very different ideas about how we should organize what wealth is, what wealth should be and what society should look like. What seems natural actually product of society: marx and critique: Immanent critique: to judge is internally at odds with itself, shows us ugly truths and forces us to confront them. Marx this is what society say its doing but looking deeply at what is actually being done. Forced to look at ugly truths: materialistic lens on human nature: We are producers at heart we work with the material/tangible this is our basic nature: material, objectification (think how we can work with the elements), self transformation (we transform ourselves and perhaps history): two classes: Under capitalism there are proletariat and bourgeoisie. The distinction rests on ownership of the mean of production.

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