SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Canadian Medical Association, Industrial Revolution, For Marx
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A macro/grand level theory (looking at things as a whole. All types of cancer is just seen as one group of cancer, not specific) A mirco/individual theory (looking at things on a smaller scale. Cancer, seen as a specific type on cancer and not just categorized as cancer alone could be leukemia, breast, ovarian, and etc. ) The way society is structured affects how we behave. Marx believed that throughout history, there has been a conflict between two groups: those who control the means by which people survive, and those who don"t. Marx believed society evolves and eventually we would return to a state from which we originated: primitive communism only time equality existed (subsistence living, ancient (based on slavery. There are slave owners and there are slaves: greece and. Rome: feudal (dominant class owned lands and serfs worked land, capitalism (owners own the factories and machines, and the workers work for a wage.