SOSC 2350 Lecture Notes - Structural Marxism, Industrial Revolution, Class Conflict
22 Nov 2013
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Separation from work and process due to increased mechanization. Law is not the expression of society"s common values. Division by class conflict (have and have not"s in dispute, not wanting to share power) Did not see his sociology isolated from political action. Legal systems evolved with socio-eco system (evolutionary: a way to explain and predict what society is going to look like. Therefore, marxism is both a political and sociological approach. Crowding and poor living and working conditions. 3 tenets: dialectical and materialistic philosophy of history (material conditions of reality) The struggle of opposites (the struggle of new with old produces a new synthesis) always providing a perspective into the other in order to assess. The cycle of history as dialectic (whenever someone is oppressed a revolution will ensue: page 20 calavita maintaining subordinate positions within labour. Alienation being removed from things we ought to be included in (labour) Social class proletariat (workers) and bourgeoisies (owners of production)
