SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Complexity, Proletariat, Bourgeoisie
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Marxist ways of thinking about societies and their organization. Not interested in questions of race and gender. Marxist dialect would say change is not just an upward movement and over lypositive. Overarching idea: change is the result of internal stresses: 1. Everything is related, we are in multiple relations of dependence: 4. Change results from the unity and struggle of opposites. People vote in diff ways with diff interests about them. We may not end up too happy with the outcome. Tensions that form unity to solve problems. Have questions about these dialect core principles in the midterm exam. We can take farming all the farmers do is far but he needs people to work the machines, people to build his furniture. We need banks to store our money in. We don"t do most things for ourselves we need others to help.
