SOC 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: African Diaspora, Capital Control, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 309
• Professor: Lynn Carty

Document Summary

Sociology 309: race and sexuality in the african diaspora. It"s not the individual at fault, it"s the system. People are not inherently malicious, but racial actions happen unconsciously. Labor power: value and surplus value: what we give to the employer, our labor has value. Social inequality: capitalism thrives on inequality and exploitation; largest percent of poverty in the industrialized world. Classes and class struggle: mode of production i. e. , the social system under which we live, marked by means of production (the land, technology, factories, transport system) which are mostly privately owned. Class division: working class (sell their ability to work their labor for a wage) and ruling class. Middle class: middle class: no constant class certainty, leaving paycheck to paycheck, would sudden illness bring your class status down (class cannot be tied to access to resources, but origin, class division is exploited in capitalism.