SY101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Social Theory, Class Conflict, Industrial Revolution
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Social theory are systematic ideas about the relationship between individuals and societies. Classical society theory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Societies were heavily shaped by their economic systems. Well known as the founding figure of the socialist movement. One key principle: the idea that humans produce the things they need to live is the essential foundations of any society. He referred to the most important of these groups as classes, by which meant those groups of people who share a similar set of economic interests. Conflict between two members of two classes: bourgeoisie: who possess special resources called capital- money or other assets that can be used for business investments- and everyone else. Class struggle: based on the idea that classes of people who are treated differently by the economic system are inevitably going to be un conflict with one another.
