SY203 Study Guide - Final Guide: W. M. Keck Observatory, Social Inequality, Caste System In India
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Karl marx"s materialist theory of history is a theory that studies one of the main commonalities between all societies, past and present, social inequality (sociological. The central historical focus marx used in this study is the production of material needs such as food, shelter and clothing. He found that, in all societies, the first task that must be accomplished among the group is the satisfaction of material needs such as food, shelter and clothing. In other words, the primary task in societies is always economic (sociological theory, january 2014). In order to live, humans must fulfill duties through economic production in order to sustain existence. Marx listed three premises to better understand the cause of social inequality as explain in his materialist theory of history. First, as stated above, humans must always put the task of obtaining food, shelter and clothing in order to survive, before anything else (morrison, p. 42, 2006).
