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Notes Marx Class and Conflict. Maurice Mullard. Durkheim Functionalism. Meaning of Society Organic whole parts need to fit together Each part has a role to play State Market Society State Order and Stability Markets the economy Family. Marx more about conflict of interest.
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Notes Marx Class and Conflict Maurice Mullard
Durkheim Functionalism • Meaning of Society • Organic whole parts need to fit together • Each part has a role to play • State Market Society • State Order and Stability • Markets the economy • Family
Marx more about conflict of interest • Understand nature of capitalism • Capitalism creates commodities • Labour as commodity value of labour • Labour value need to survive • Ideas of surplus labour • Alienated labour divorced from the product • Meaning and value
Class Conflict • Capitalism creates classes owners and non owners • Working class class in itself for class for itself • Role of trade unions resistance in the workplace • Rise of trade unions trade union density • Strikes • Trade union membership
Class and Special Interests • Lobbyists and business and influence on politics • Regulation and self regulation • Labour markets
New Capitalism • How different role of knowledge • Class awareness • Collectivism and the individual interest • Mortgages and debt • Affluence and consumer society • Decline of industrial communities • Study by Richard Sennet on attitudes in the workplace