SOCL 4471 Midterm: 4471 Exam 1 (got 96%)
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1818-1883 (time period in which these ideas were originating) If people aren"t able to meet their basic needs, then there is no need to focus on the future. Each society needs to develop a certain mode of production . Mode of production- a specific kind of economic system. Marx and angle identified the earliest mode of production as a primitive communism (the hunting and gathering societies) Tribes shared the use of land as a community (men were hunters, women were gatherers) Was a rudimentary division of labor this was how primitive societies managed to satiate themselves. Slavery- marx and angle state that this was one of the first instance of private property ownership. People began to own land, slave labor as chattel, and began to produce consistent goods and services. Feudalism- as it existed in europe in the feudal ages, was an agrarian economy. People (serfs) worked the land and paid taxes. Worked to serve the needs of the estate.
