SOSC 2560 Study Guide - Final Guide: For Marx, Michel Foucault, Starbucks
4 Dec 2014
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For marx, the commodity is central to understanding social relations in the capitalist system. Marx: a commodity is, in the first place, an object outside us, a thing that by its properties satisfies human wants of some sort of another (p. 41). An object considered to have magic or supernatural qualities. Marx refers to religious fetishes that take on meaning in the social world. Philosophy commonly practiced through: language a specific conception of world, common sense" | good sense", popular religion and folklore". Church aims to make its ideology part of everyday consciousness (common sense). Attempts to create impression that catholic world view (ideology) is normal, natural. Conversation, linguistic conventions relationship town language culture agency/knowledge for social context, relation more than always of thinking and producing -> changes depending: discursive and , discourse more than ways of thinking and producing meaning. Study of signs, symbolism; tie on doorknob universal signifier by the sign.
