SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture : Sociology of Theory Lecture 5
30 Sep 2011
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Some of marx"s key concepts: dialectical or historical materialism, concepts connected to production, the modes of production. Is the overall system of economic activity in a society, he suggested there has been historical progression in the development of the mode of production. Slavery - economic system in which people are legally owned by others and engaged in force services. Antiquity - historical period before the middle ages, before medieval times (ie. ancient athens, rome) Feudalism - economic system in which people work the land for others in exchange for a share of the food production. Capitalism - economic system in which people who own private property utilize the labour of others in the pursuit of profit. Marx was interested in this mode of production : each mode of production combines into 2 component parts. All those things that are needed for production to occur. Forces of production are made up of the means of production and the productive labour.
