SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: M.O.P., Productive Forces, Labour Power
25 Jun 2020
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Structural: macro-orientation; social order as external to individuals; an objective, durable reality. Phenomenological: micro-orientation; social order as reflectively produced; an intersubjective common-sense reality. Social constructionism- the process by which human interpretations of the world become transformed into shared, common-sense, unquestioned reality. More key concepts: the three moments in the social construction of reality: externalization (habitualization, objectivation (reciprocal typification, institutionalization, internalization (socialization, social control) Inspired buy but also opposed to the idealism of hegelian philosophers. Marx argued that changes in consciousness/ideas are dependent on changes in material conditions, not the other way around. For marx, economic activity/production is the essence of the human species. Furthermore, political ideas, laws, religious beliefs, art, etc. all evolve out of these material conditions of economic production. In short, human economic life is the foundation upon which all other social institutions depend. Moreover, the powerful, commonsense ideas of a society are almost always ideas that are developed by the most powerful economic actors.
