SOC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Human Behaviour, Situation Two, Feudalism
16 Jan 2018
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Superstructure: how we think (values, beliefs, ideologies, how we act (social structures, institutions) Relations of production: labour force, tools and tech, nature, owns/controls m of p, work/not work, source/size of wealth. How we produce and exchange the necessities of life. 4 modes of production: ancient communal societies. Nomadic (people moving around to have access to resources ) 99% (1 million years ago: slavery (ancient and modern, feudalism. Forces of production: labour force (who and division of labour, tools and technology, nature i + ii = means of production. Both males and females ritual and healing specialists. Relations of production: (property relations: who owns and controls the means of production. Personal and private property: who works and does not work, source and size of wealth and how distributed. Superstructure: how we think, how we act e. g. bushmen, think: Human behaviour is the complex interplay of individual biology and social and natural environment.
