SOC101Y1 Final: Exam Study Package
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Development of social institutions cities, schooling, arts, networks, etc. Allows people to reduce inputs of labour and materials needed to produce outputs. Allows for people to build surplus and be free to consume it later. Allows for division of labour (one person doesn"t do everything required to live) Allows for development of material basis for civilization. Supports intelligentsia that advance the arts and sciences. Production of technology does not lead to equal benefits in qol. Marx; division of labour --> unequal --> class inequality. Division of labour as an effect by product of technological innovation. Those engaged in mental labour deemed superior over those engaged in physical labour. Owners of means of production extract surplus from the labor of working class. People receive prestige and honour from others for their wealth, occupations education, and ways of life (all influenced and affected by technologies) Consumer oriented societies: keeping up with the joneses.
