ANTHROP 2R03 Lecture Notes - Tabula Rasa, Primitive Communism, False Consciousness

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 2R03
• Professor: Antonio Sorge

Document Summary

Elaborated the concepts of social consciousness and ideology. Basic assumption of his: people exist only in society. Individuals not as autonomous units part of society. The society of which people are a part determines their personality, morality etc. Therefore, to understand society we should study society, not the individual. Understand social relations society is a pattern of social relations, not a collection of individuals. What an individual believes ambitions, drives, world view etc. All conditioned by the pattern of social relations in society. Tabula rasa can make an individual whoever you want: pattern of society determines the individual. More on patterns of social relations: marx as an economically oriented theorist. Argued that when it come to social relations in socity the thing that determines everything else and is crucial to know is society"s mode of production. Helps you understand who has more power than whom.