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Goal of a social scientist

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To contribute to human well-being–conditions of social justice, (in)equality and respect for human rights.
To understand mechanisms that lead to inequalities

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Define the strange in the familiar

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Asking the ‘common sense’

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State and explain the UBUNTU quote

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To be human is to be social
To be human is to ensure humanization
To be human is to bothered by dehuminization

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Define globalization

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Increase in economic, cultural, political, and environmental connections between different parts of the world through the goods, capital, people, technology and information.

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Define sociology

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The study of social relations and society

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Define social action

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Micro level any action that is oriented

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Social interaction

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Social action that is reciprocated; exchange of social actions

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Define social relationship

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A pattern of social interaction

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Define social structure

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Patterns of social relationships that are relatively stable > organized around institutions

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Explain the relational/dialectic framework

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How things are interrelated
> 2 way relationship of mutual effect
> keeps changing each other
> 1 cannot fully understood without the other

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what are the major dialectic relationships

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Micro/macro
Structure/agency
Gender/class/ethnicity/race
Local/global
Political/economic
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Define the sociological imagination

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Ability to grasp interplay intersection between individuals and society, biography and history, self and world
> being able to perceive connection between individual + society

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Define structure

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Created by people

product of collective agency

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Means of production

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Anything that enables you to produce

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Relations of production

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Relations that revolve around the use, control and ownership over the means of production and the products of human labour

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Mode of production

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Dominant type of relations of production in the society as a whole

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Different types of mode of production

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Band and tribal
Ancient slavery
Feudalism
Capitalism
Socialism
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Capitalism

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The current mode of production in which we live.
Has three basic requirements:
Resources
Labour
Markets
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The mode of production preceding capitalism

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Feudalism

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Feudal social relations

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Landlords and serfs

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T or F, landlords had no obligations towards serfs and they could evict the serfs anytime

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False, landlords had obligations towards the serfs and the landlord could not evict the serfs for as long as they fulfilled their obligations

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Primitive accumulation

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Expropriation of the direct producers from their means of subsistence

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Consequences of primitive accumulation

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Loss of land-loss of security,livelihood, culture, home creation of landlessness- no other means of subsistence except for THEIR labour

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Mechanisms for dealing with resistance to capitalist development

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Legal, violent, ideological

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Class

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Group of people who have the same relationship to the means of production

Your class is determined by your relationship to the means of production

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2 classes of capitalism

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Bourgeoisie (capitalist)

Proletariat (workers)

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Bourgeoisie

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Owners of means of production, appropriate the products produced by the workers

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Proletariat

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Sell their labour to survive, don’t own means of productions

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Capital accumulation

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A process through which capital expands through production and the appropriation of surplus value
> a given means of production can produce capital only when labour comes in contact with it

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Exploitation

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Extraction of surplus value from the worker by the owner of the means of production

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Elements of exploitation

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Necessary labour
Surplus labour
Surplus value
Rate of exploitation

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Role of the state

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Instrument that ensures the dominance of the capitalist class by securing the conditions necessary for capital accumulation

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Colonialism

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Economic, political and military domination by one nation over another territory and its people

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T or F, slavery as an institution and Racism as an ideology and practice

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True

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Colonial expansion

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Globalization of primitive accumulation

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Racial oppression as an instrument in economic exploitation

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Reason: difficult to discipline unfree labourers
Solution: divide labourers by inventing race
Reason: racial oppression became a strategy for controlling the labouring classes

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Slavery > Racism

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Need to weaken the unity of working classes > institutionalized slavery > racism as ideological justification

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Othering

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Claiming difference from one’s self for the purpose of insinuating the other person’s race inferiority
> to exclude from material, symbolic, emotional or other types of rewards

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World ecomomy

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National economies are linked to one another through trade and finances

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Transnationalization

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The production process itself is globalized as the chains of production and distribution of commodities and services are decentralized

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Capital’s advantage over labour

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Means of subsistence, capital is mobile while labour is not

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Neoliberalism

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A system of policies that promotes the interests of private enterprises by eliminating any remaining barriers to capital’s search for resources, labour and markets

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Components of neoliberalism

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Trade liberalization (free trade) and foreign investment
Privatization
Deregulation
Austerity

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Trade liberalization

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Removal of any trade barriers, such as tariffs and quota

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Privatization

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The sale of public enterprises and assets to private owners

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Deregulation

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Removal of govt restrictions and interventions on capital to allow market forces act as a self regulating mechanism

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Austerity

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elimination of budget expenditures for social programs and services

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