SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Communist Manifesto, Social Alienation, False Consciousness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2112
• Professor: Linda Hunter

Document Summary

Refers to what rousseau talked about in his second discourse. Control of man over nature alienation of man. Theory about the loss of human powers in society. Money is the alienated essence of man"s work and existence. Capitalists employ the workers and owns the means of production. The way in which a particular organization alienates us from ourselves. Alienation is a distinguishable feature, created something in our society that goes directly against us. Workers are the most alienated of all, selling their own labor as if we are a commodity. A) class theory: between classes, between exploiters and exploited, class in itself becomes a class for itself, petite bourgeoisie, working class proletariat, lumpen proletariat, working class was bound to develop class consciousness , class consciousness and false consciousness. Proletariat will develop an accurate conception of how capitalism works and how it affects them (class consciousness) False consciousness describes the situation throughout the capitalist epoch.