SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-6: Groupthink

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Dax Urbszat

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Same words can mean different things, computers cant interpret the cues: facial expressions, gestures, and body language, this is basic shit, the way we sit, move, anything can change the meaning of our words , certain words or gestures can be insulting to other countries, status cues, visual indicators of a person social position, which leads to stereotypes which is straightforward since we live in a racist world . What is marx"s conflict theory : classes are not inevitable, class determined by personal relationship to means production, bourgeoisie owners of means of production / don"t do physical labour, proletariat working class, perform pyscial labour don"t oown means of production didn"t work out the way marx predicted, industrial societies did not polarize into two opposed classes engaged in bitter conflict, it is possible for capitalist to earn high profits, communism took place not where industry was most highly developed.