SOC 102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Biological Determinism, Walmart, Immorality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 102
• Professor: Mosey Nicholas J

Document Summary

Productive property is not privately owned and there are nor major social cleavages due to unequal access to resources, certain values and behaviours are likely to dominate. Different from a personal possession and productive property. The power to hire or fire people and allows us to understand the structure of social. As private property developed, one group of people was able to permanently take and keep what another group produced. In classical marxist analysis, these groups, each of which has a distinct relations to the means of production, are referred to as social classes. Such societies tend to emphasizes the notion of reciprocity (that each member of a society has duties and obligations to all others) as well as the notion of redistribution (the community transfers wealth to those who have less). An example of productive property are the foraging societies. Surplus - that which is created by the unpaid labour workers.