How We Got Here: Crash Course Sociology #12
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Date: 2022-04-04
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nexus1g
It seems you were just trying to conflate inequality with different roles, making it seem like some roles are better than others while ignoring the relative work done and risks taken by individuals in those various roles. It seems to be begging the question regarding the actual numbers and details of those relationships. This leaves an Us vs. Them mentality which these quick generalizations seem to promote by not expanding understanding of what's done by the various roles. This leaves the listener no better off in knowledge, and without critical thinking skills, which many undergrad and even some graduate degrees lack a requirement in, very easily leads the listener to accept the assumption on which the conclusion is based.
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It seems you were just trying to conflate inequality with different roles, making it seem like some roles are better than others while ignoring the relative work done and risks taken by individuals in those various roles. It seems to be begging the question regarding the actual numbers and details of those relationships. This leaves an Us vs. Them mentality which these quick generalizations seem to promote by not expanding understanding of what's done by the various roles. This leaves the listener no better off in knowledge, and without critical thinking skills, which many undergrad and even some graduate degrees lack a requirement in, very easily leads the listener to accept the assumption on which the conclusion is based.
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Ba1
One note here: Lenski posits technology as the prime-mover for societal change. Bottle necks contradict this: many advances don't change the fundamental structures. You may choose an alternative theory: that inequalities themselves lead to technology change - the crises of capitalism, where variable costs can no longer maximize costs, will inevitably lead to competing business to invest in new fixed costs, R&D, as a means of staying ahead. Therefore, think of whether societies are born of technological change (those who emphasize modernity - and the cultural stasis of -modern socieities-, or the more historically specific measure of dialecticism born of worker-employer relations
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One note here: Lenski posits technology as the prime-mover for societal change. Bottle necks contradict this: many advances don't change the fundamental structures. You may choose an alternative theory: that inequalities themselves lead to technology change - the crises of capitalism, where variable costs can no longer maximize costs, will inevitably lead to competing business to invest in new fixed costs, R&D, as a means of staying ahead. Therefore, think of whether societies are born of technological change (those who emphasize modernity - and the cultural stasis of -modern socieities-, or the more historically specific measure of dialecticism born of worker-employer relations
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Zet
Please Crash course; do a playlist with Archaeology / anthropology. I'm currently studying archaeology at university, that genre applies so many different sciences like Sociology, geography, geology, psychology (in some instances, biology, chemistry, historical analysis, ethnology; basically almost anything that can be applied in order to help analyze history and date sites, artifacts or events properly. It would be very useful and interesting to see and hear it from your perspective, since I really fancy your videos in general.
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Please Crash course; do a playlist with Archaeology / anthropology. I'm currently studying archaeology at university, that genre applies so many different sciences like Sociology, geography, geology, psychology (in some instances, biology, chemistry, historical analysis, ethnology; basically almost anything that can be applied in order to help analyze history and date sites, artifacts or events properly. It would be very useful and interesting to see and hear it from your perspective, since I really fancy your videos in general.
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Ba1
Another note: Marx didn't simply think that class struggle led to change. He also considered the contradictions in the relations between capitalists themselves (see my note on crises below. Both were of equal importance to Marx. Consider dialecticism as a motor of change. Also, note that Marx isn't set against the idea of Ideas - rather, he is a materialist, so ideas are accrued through material circumstance (see Grundesse)
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Another note: Marx didn't simply think that class struggle led to change. He also considered the contradictions in the relations between capitalists themselves (see my note on crises below. Both were of equal importance to Marx. Consider dialecticism as a motor of change. Also, note that Marx isn't set against the idea of Ideas - rather, he is a materialist, so ideas are accrued through material circumstance (see Grundesse)
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by
let's make this simple:
once man started taking more than he needed, ie -accumulating surplus-, greed and selfishness took over.
-specialization- is just a fancy word for classism.
if you don't have a skill i need, you are useless and unworthy of basic necessities.
are material toys and comforts worth the inequality and environmental damage they bring with them?
in my opinion. they are not. --
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let's make this simple:
once man started taking more than he needed, ie -accumulating surplus-, greed and selfishness took over.
-specialization- is just a fancy word for classism.
if you don't have a skill i need, you are useless and unworthy of basic necessities.
are material toys and comforts worth the inequality and environmental damage they bring with them?
in my opinion. they are not. --
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Ercan
Well the hunter gatherers were also able to make surplus but hat was totally coincidential so they were (are) incapable about handling it, because they did not know how to process and keep resources, so most of the time they were destroying it. At some point some of them start to keep those instead of destroying them, and saw their natural process of rotting, then try to prevent this process.
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Well the hunter gatherers were also able to make surplus but hat was totally coincidential so they were (are) incapable about handling it, because they did not know how to process and keep resources, so most of the time they were destroying it. At some point some of them start to keep those instead of destroying them, and saw their natural process of rotting, then try to prevent this process.
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Benji
One important thing is missing:
Agriculture created food surplus, but also creates a permanent need for land as a resource. This is one of the major factors of war and conquest. And if there's conflict, you can't just abandon the land and move somewhere else, like nomadic people do. You likely stay there and fight because you invested a lot of resources into the land.
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One important thing is missing:
Agriculture created food surplus, but also creates a permanent need for land as a resource. This is one of the major factors of war and conquest. And if there's conflict, you can't just abandon the land and move somewhere else, like nomadic people do. You likely stay there and fight because you invested a lot of resources into the land.
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Peter
3: 42 -we also get real social inequality for the first time-. hmm that really depends on what metric you measure inequality by. nomadic tribes are not all democratic - some have chiefs. so there is inequality of power even there. and when it comes to inequality of wealth you have to specify whether you mean inequality in an absolute sense ($, or a relative sense (%.
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3: 42 -we also get real social inequality for the first time-. hmm that really depends on what metric you measure inequality by. nomadic tribes are not all democratic - some have chiefs. so there is inequality of power even there. and when it comes to inequality of wealth you have to specify whether you mean inequality in an absolute sense ($, or a relative sense (%.
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Christopher
If Crash course isn't aware of the low weekly working hours of hunters and gathers, and the pairing of inequality and poverty with progress and growth, I'd highly recommend looking into the works of Henry George and Sebastian Junger
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If Crash course isn't aware of the low weekly working hours of hunters and gathers, and the pairing of inequality and poverty with progress and growth, I'd highly recommend looking into the works of Henry George and Sebastian Junger
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education
so crazy how the post industrial society mostly vsible in the north rather than the global south, in the third world we are still relying heavily on agricultural and manufacturing sectors of the industry
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so crazy how the post industrial society mostly vsible in the north rather than the global south, in the third world we are still relying heavily on agricultural and manufacturing sectors of the industry
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