SOC 525 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Invisibility, Religious Education In Primary And Secondary Education, Social Realism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 525
• Professor: Tonya Davidson

Document Summary

Media ownership, ideology & hegemony, social class (4, 11, 53) (1) hegemony (chapter 4) He believed that capitalism is a system of exploitation. Marx argued that workers are routinely denied the value of their labour. Surplus value is kept by the owners. Eventually the proletariats will become such a large group and over throw the ruling classes. Super structures: within the economy system there are large institutions in society (religion education the family, sports, and the media) The purpose is to offer legitimation to the system of capitalist exploitation. Convince workers it is fair and just that they are denied. Pop culture is a super structure (and like a drug; opium) Camera obscera; world/interest of capital/how we see the world. Introducing antonio gramsci (1891-1937: helped form italian communist party in 1921. Spent 1926-1937 in jail, where he wrote, the prison notebooks .