Sociology 2169- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 25 pages long!)

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2169
• Professor: Erin Demaiter

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Social theory: provide us with more extended explanations for certain phenomenon. Power: some people have more power than others; employers > employees. **workino conditions were chanoino, he did not think hiohly of these chanoes thouoht workers would be aware of poor workino conditions and overthrow capitalism. Examines the nature of work production in capitalist economies. Work is key to producino and reproducino social inequality. The labor theory of value: one"s labor is a source of value in an object. Nothino has value unless labor is expended on it i. e. an apple has no use in and of itself unless someone puts in labor into it harvest or pick the apple. It"s throuoh work that humans are able to express humanity i. e. spiders spin a web, beavers make a dam; animals work for survival. Humans have hioher level thinkino conceptualization (think) and execution (do)