SOC 2112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-3: For Marx, False Consciousness, Class Consciousness

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: Joseph Sawan

Document Summary

Hegel on dialectics, the state & society: was an idealist german philosopher who had a great impact on individuals who had a rationalist way of thinking. The hegelian dialectic: his goal was to comprehend society relying on ideas and metaphysical phenomena, dialectics was knowledge that is derived from an understanding of the unity of opposites. Karl marx adopted this idea for his explanations of social change and conflict: that being said, they wanted to understand the source of knowledge and how it developed over time. The state & society: his views on politics/state was greatly shaped by the idealist philosophy. His concept is (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) the (cid:862)idea(cid:863) (cid:374)ot the e(cid:454)isti(cid:374)g state. He sa(cid:449) the state as ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g the task of achieving what is known as universality. The person is aware of being a member of the place and the state becomes the e(cid:454)pressio(cid:374) of that perso(cid:374)"s ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455). It e(cid:454)ists i(cid:374) a(cid:374)d through the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)iduals, it is an organic unity.