SOCB30H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Wage Labour, Labour Power, Political Sociology
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Sociological imagination offers optics on powe that connects self and society, biography and history. Social theory can guide political practice: how we can act to change the world r r r r r r r r r r r r r. It is our perspective (way of seeing), carries explanation (way of understanding) like: accuracy in description and prediction, clarity, comprehensiveness, simplicity. Class (marx vs. weber), conflict commodification, unions (unions and the state) Economy is political and social, social inequalities not natural (darwin) or about individual talent (smith), effect of mode of production. Capitalism: new mode of production that organized people into classes. Production: transform nature into products (history of society) Two principle classes (1) capitalists (bourgeoisie); owned means of production, (2) workers (proletariat); sold labour power. Labour power is the life activity of a worker or the capacity to work, and is operated on wage (paid to buy labour power).
