SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Consumerism, Robert Reich, Class Conflict
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Looks at changes in structural society and brought about by human activity. How do humans acting as agents, transform society. Mode of production of material life determines general character of social, political and spiritual processes of life. Basic understanding marx has of human beings = human world is created in particular modes (feudalism, slavery, etc. ) and any production that occurs in society, occurs to the use of certain materials - without which production cannot occur. As feudalism develops more further, new institutions emerge which are limited. Humans cannot survive without producing (material things) Society structured in a way with certain sets of ideology. Historical materialism is not a teleological evolutionary formula predicting social change. Social change is not predetermined; not the same as change in nature. Perspective that represents a narrow idea but does so universally. I. ideology as bad breath - bias aware of others ideology. Marx; the ideas of ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.
