CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dominant Ideology, Class Conflict, Bourgeoisie
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Personal: radicalized early on, concerned about the context of the society he lived in, marginal social location (lived in poverty, not in the upper class) B: 1818 d: 1883: never had an academic position. Workers were struggling with both economic and health issues. Concerned in the way capitalism was setting up those with a lower economic status (under/unemployed and overworked: constructed fear of the dangerous classes . Concerned with the problematic treatment of people. Factory owners would maintain their workers at a certain poverty level so the workers need to stay with the company in order to get by. Intellectual: enlightenment (he emphasized humanistic view, science & statistics (logic) The new economic system was illogical because of the issues with human rights associated with it. Observations by marx: technological and scientific changes, changes were in many ways serving the industrial revolution, strategically benefiting those in charge of the industrial revolution, changes in social hierarchy, sees the bourgeoisie b.