SOCL 3101 Study Guide - The Power Elite, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Georg Simmel
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Took ideas from socialism and communism and put them into a broader ecological idea: hegel- the dialectic : any particular argument has a sole basis in the reasoning behind it (thesis, human conscience cant be separated from, material existence. Economic determinism economic system of any given society determines the institutions of that society: means and modes of production. Look at relations of productions to determine a person"s position in society. All that determines institutions of society (government, law, family, religion, etc. : labor (community) Use value = worth of that labor for yourself. Petite bourgeoisie forced into proletariat (doctors, lawyers, shopkeeps) Proletariat (wage workers) make money by selling labor; don"t get full benefit. You can only understand deviance if you study what we find normal. Cluster of saints = people committed to living right, but blow little things out of proportion and create deviance.
