SOSC 2350 Lecture 4: January 28th, 2014- 4th Lecture.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 2350
• Professor: Tanja Juric

Document Summary

Of production) reproduced: distinguishes between economic" reproduction and social" reproduction of labour power, the cmp: we must employ the distinction between capital as a process of reproducing value on the one hand, and capitalism as a system of social relations (briskin, p. 140), althusser: capitalism as a system of social relations" involves reproducing labour power of a specific quality and skill through the superstructure" (cid:224)capitalism is a mode of production (cmp) The (imaginary) relationship of individuals to the relations of production (p. 155). (cid:0) ideology is our consciousness. This is where imagination comes in, am i an individual in charge of my destiny: thesis ii: the ideas that make up ideology do not have an ideal or spiritual existence, but a material existence (p. 155). It exists in an apparatus and practices this constitutes the material existence" of ideology: althusser says that ideology has a materiality to it. All ideology hails or interpellates concrete individuals as concrete subjects (p. 162).