SOC 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Feudalism, Commodity Fetishism, Primitive Communism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Mill"s term for ability to view personal circumstance w/in a social context. Sociological imagination mills" term: ability to perceive how dynamic social forces influence individ. lives. Un-intended consequences of an action or social pattern process or element of society that creates a disruption or instability in a social system relationship btw/ workers and owners workers, who don"t own land. Rich owners difference btw/ what workers are paid and the wealth they create for the owner. Marxist concept (workers lack connection to what they produce and become separated from themselves and other workers) belief in or support of the system that oppresses you recognition of domination and oppression and collective action to address it. Weber"s term for a deep understanding or interpretation of subjective social meanings attributes (advntgs/disvntsgs) assigned at birth (e. g: sex) attributes developed throughout life as a result of effort or skill (e. g: course grades)