SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Antisemitism, Commodification
1 May 2018
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Note Set 12 10/25/2017 – 10/27/2017
Conflict Theory – Not on Exam 1 so learn for Exam 2
I. Karl Marx = German and Jewish
- 4 Life Influences:
i. Antisemitism= how to use religion to separate people
ii. Government/ State= acts in the interest of ruling class
iii. Wood Controversy= started charging peasants for wood instead of giving
for free.
iv. Grape grower Controversy= Workers wanted higher pay and thus got fired
and owners replaced workers with cheaper labor.
- Economic + Philosophical manuscripts of 1844
• Nature of Conflict
• Commodification of the workers= labor can be bought and sold.
• Praxis= the capacity of humans to create themselves & the world they live
in.
• Alienation (4 dimensions)
o Alienation from self= start to objectify oneself
o Alienation from others/ work= work controls life and outside world
o Alienation from product of work= products are not controlled by
workers.
o Alienation from species being= In ability to form relationships with
others.
- Das Kapital= 3rd book
i. Price/ Wage pay
• Prices of products go up over time but wages are staggered so no
changes.
• Thought the prolaterians would revolt when prices become
unaffordable control the masses but don’t use force.
ii. How to control the masses = Ideology “The American Deam”
II. Max Weber = thought America would have first revolution but didn’t have
revolution since ideology.
- Increasing nationalization of the world
i. Formed vs. Substitution reasoning
• “The iron cage” = where formal reasoning trumps substitutive
reasoning in a democratic society
• Substations reasoning= having sense of right or wrong, morality
• Formal rules= rules, logic, laws
• Formal reasoning= ridged, inflexible
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