SOC 3126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Multiple Choice, Social Relation, Final Crisis
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Secion a: first secion: concepts [deine your concepts, two sentences- a paragraph, second secion: theories [two or three] Readings are on the exam {the ones on virtual campus} Essence: the essence of things is what things are in reality. Form: what these things in reality are, take certain forms. Example: you are a student, and you appear as one. The essence exist only in full forms, burrowed from hegel. Marx is not the only person who provides a criique on capitalism. Marx follows smith and ricardo who are other people who wrote on capitalism. Marx argues that the social form in which labour appears is value. Marx takes this disincion because before other people focused on appearances. Let us go beyond what is obvious, what simply appears to us. Worker works 8 hours, half of those hours are paid to the worker to eat etc. The next half is absolute surplus value" that the boss gets to keep.