SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Productive Forces, Technological Determinism, Determinism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

A certain stage in their development, the material productive forces of society come into contradiction with the existing relations of production . From forms of development of the productive forces, these relations. [of production] transform into their fetters (tied in). It gives rise to an era of social revolution. The whole immense superstructure sooner or later revolutionizes itself. At a certain sage of their development, the material productive forces of society come into contradiction with the existing relations of production [my emphasis] . Machinery seen as the key material productive force- increasing technological efficiency to create profit. There is a technological imperative to increase efficiency. Steam train is the most important as it allowed english merchants to transport goods. Social relations are closely bound up with productive forces. As you change the productive forces, you change your way of earning a living, and therefore change your social relations. history. Not machinery or technology but economy as a whole.