SOCIOL 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Planned Obsolescence, Pseudoscience, Puritans
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Sociology 102: week 1: negations: essays in critical theory herbert marcuse. Strains and stresses that are suffered by the individual in an affluent society stem from the normal functioning of it. Normal functioning : (of mind): enables the individual to perform, functioning in accord with his position, job, profession, status, but one must include the factor that is society. Society"s factor of normality seems to be a social and institutional rather than individual condition. If an individual performs normally in a sick society, isn"t he sick as well? (can occur on the poor and the rich side of things. Sick society : when its basic institutions and relations, its structure, are such that they do not permit the use of available material and intellectual resources for the optimal development and satisfaction of individual needs. The larger the discrepancy is between potential and actual human conditions, the greater the social need for surplus-repression .
