SOC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Universal Negro Improvement Association And African Communities League, Herbert Blumer, Double Consciousness
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A conversation about the what"s, how"s, and why"s of society. Formally became the field of sociology around 1880. Factors that led to the emergence of sociology: Science, progress, individual: the counter-enlightenment (end of the 1700s) Keep institutions: differentiation of social sciences within the university. Economic: expansion of commerce and markets. Social: urbanization, decline of local communities. Political: rise of bureaucratic nation states, decline in the power of the church, feminism. Economic determinism: this is the way the economy (society) is going to go . Social structure: all institutions of society except the economy. Come into existence bc they"re needed to serve the economy and always benefit the bourgeoisie. Use labor expresses self and true human identity: person reflected in a product. Commodification: process of making goods for the purpose of selling: exchange value (primarily being made to exchange for $) Labor: alienated from product, process, self, others: not making stuff because they enjoy it; making stuff for the $
