SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The German Ideology, Class Consciousness, Industrial Revolution
11 Apr 2018
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Society is grounded upon inequality and competition. Power is the core of all social relationships; scarce and inequality divided among members of society. Social values and the dominate ideology are the vehicles by which the powerful promote their own interests at the expense of the weak. Rooted in the writing of machiavelli, hobbes and rousseau. Mar(cid:454)(cid:859)s (cid:449)ork (cid:449)as a rea(cid:272)tio(cid:374) to the e(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)i(cid:272) a(cid:374)d so(cid:272)ial (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)s (cid:271)rought on by the industrial revolution. Marx sought to forge a theoretical model intended not only to interpret the world, but also to change it. Marx focused on economic classes and forces of production. A way of seeing history and society as the results of oppositions, contradictions and tensions from which social change can emerge. Human mind and consciousness are more important in understanding the human condition than is the material world. And human interaction with the material world could change society. An awareness on the part of the working class.
