SOC 101LEC Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Integration, Group Cohesiveness, Class Conflict

• School: University at Buffalo
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101LEC
• Professor: Christopher Mele

Document Summary

Marx argue that there are three forms of alienation: --the estrangement from work/ labor and product work is alienating because someone else is control all aspects of labor which leads to man"s labor becoming soothing outside of him and object. Objectification :what human and meaningful is turned into an object- a means to something(wage)other than an end in itself(satisfaction( Thus the work of our hands become only a means through which we gain physical subsistence. The estrangement from self, the freedom to produce what one wants and when is denied, hence man is alienated from his true self, The estrangement from others labor is substitutable, so worker compare with one another over subsistence. Marx solution( class struggle to undo the ownership of the means of production in the hands of one class only. Social integration: the degree to which people feel a part of social group.