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Traditional Marxism
(Conflict Theory)
- Brief Overview
- Structural/macro/top-down -
individuals are puppets of society
- Based on conflict of the bourgoeisie
(ruling class) and the proletariat (working
class)
- Marx in hi study of Utopian
Socialism idenitifed 6 stages
(epochs) of human society which
are notably the "mode of
production"
- Primitive Communism,
Slavery, Feudalism,
Capitalism, Socialism and
Communism
- Primitive Communism,
Slavery, Feudalism,
Capitalism, Socialism and
Communism
- Structural/macro/top-down -
individuals are puppets of society
- Capitalist Mode of
Production
- The worker (proletarian) sells their
ability to work which is known as their
'labour power' to a captialist. The
capitalist then exploits their ability
pays them little money. Workers work
long hours, yet the capitalists gain the
profit (surplus value) for their
company.
- ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION
- ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION
- The worker (proletarian) sells their
ability to work which is known as their
'labour power' to a captialist. The
capitalist then exploits their ability
pays them little money. Workers work
long hours, yet the capitalists gain the
profit (surplus value) for their
company.
- Alienation
- People are working slaves and lost
control over the means of
production.
- People are working slaves and lost
control over the means of
production.
- Superstructure
- Societal Institutions
- e.g. family, education,
religion, media and
criminal justice system.
- e.g. family, education,
religion, media and
criminal justice system.
- Controlled by r/c
ideology
- Societal Institutions
- Superstructure
- Economy
- Changes in the infrastructure lead to changes
in the superstructure.
- Changes in the infrastructure lead to changes
in the superstructure.
- Economy
- Fase Class Consciousness
- Unawareness of
exploitation
- When people
become aware, they
are likely to revolt
- When people
become aware, they
are likely to revolt
- Unawareness of
exploitation
- Revolution
- Transfer into a socialist era
- Examples are the 2011 summer
riots, 1980's Brixton Riots - Gilroy
Empire Strikes Back
- Transfer into a socialist era
- Polarisation
- Of the working class
- E.g. the difference between skilled and
unskilled labour - can link to the idea of
cultural capital (Bourdieu) and language
codes (Bernstein)
- E.g. the difference between skilled and
unskilled labour - can link to the idea of
cultural capital (Bourdieu) and language
codes (Bernstein)
- The w/c = the
oppressed, the r/c =
the oppressor
- Of the working class
- Althusser (1971)
- Relative
autonomy
- Ideological and repressive state
apparatuses
- EMPHASISES THE SOCIAL
STRUCURE AND IGNORES
SOCIAL ACTION.
- EMPHASISES THE SOCIAL
STRUCURE AND IGNORES
SOCIAL ACTION.
- Class ineuqality is made
socially acceptable
- The media act as
an ideological
smoke screen
providing a
distration from 'real'
societal
issues/capitalism.
- This maintains a degree of FCC
- This maintains a degree of FCC
- The media act as
an ideological
smoke screen
providing a
distration from 'real'
societal
issues/capitalism.
- Relative
autonomy
- Evaluation
- Marx made a significant contribution in
understanding class inequalities
- Marx made a significant contribution in
understanding class inequalities
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