SOC231H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mary Wollstonecraft, Social Inequality, Labour Power
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Time available: two hours: critically examine the contributions of hobbes, rousseau and mary wollstonecraft to the understanding of the origins, structure and characteristics of society. Life is nasty, brutish and short: we need power from the top which creates stability and makes social life possible for us, chaos happens= society breaks. Wollstonecraft: exemplifies rousseau in saying that women not capable of writing/reading, unreasonable element (rousseau view, difference in society between female vs. male. The social contract: all other theorist such as hobbes, viewed society as a contract which established that. But even then , those who govern will have to be guided by divine: rousseau sees social change as a deliberate and slow process wisdom and patience. Industries alienates us and marx claims there are 4 components to alienation (true for 19th century when marx was writing: workers are alienated from one another as they are in competition with each other.
