SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Meritocracy, Ideal Type, Oligarchy
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Ideas, political structure: of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is really a revolutionary class . The products of labor come to take on an existence independent of the worker/labor (natural property) Do not associate labor with the final product, we"ve become linked together. Commodity takes life of its own, the consumerism society. Relate to each other solely as and through commodity. Between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, there is a space for a classless society. Through competition and production, the bourgeoisie"s are brought together. Different spheres of capitalist society are in constant competition with each other (i. e. The corn law, also led to the first modern minimum wage) provides the seed of transcending capitalism. How is power distributed in a community: new occupational groups with their own social identities/group relations, increased literacy rates, public education is still increasing.
