SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Georg Simmel, Symbolic Interactionism, Dominant Ideology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Power is the core of all social relaionships; scarce and unequally divided among members of society. (where the is power, there is resistance) Social values and the dominant ideology are the vehicles by which the powerful promote their own interests at the expense of the workers. Rooted in the wriings of machiavelli, hobbes, and rousseau. Dialects: a way of seeing a history and society as the result of opposiions, contradicions, and tensions from which social change can emerge (hegel). Idealism: human mind and consciousness are more important in understanding the human condiion that is the material world. Human consciousness & human interacion with the material world could change society. Base/superstructure: base: material and economic foundaion for society. Includes the forces and relaions of producion: superstructure: all of the things that society values and aspires to once its material needs are met. Alienaion: the process by which workers are disconnected form what they produce.