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12. Say whether the following statements are right or wrong. Use the
following helpers:
I definitely agree, it's quite so (true), I don’t /can’ agree, I have a different opinion
1. The relations of production shape and determine the social situation.
2. Marx insisted that property is the fundamental determinant.
3. Marx ascribed the status of superstructure to power, cultural modes,
forms of family life, educational processes.
4. Only the terms "substructure" and "derivative" are important in the
Marxist approach to stratification.
5. Workers cannot achieve a final stage of stratification.
6. Class solidarity involves united action of the workers.
7. When the workers become aware of their historic role they stop their
conscious struggle.
13. Answer the questions:
1. What determines the Marxist approach to the study of stratification?
2. What can shape and determine the total social situation?
3. What is property according to Marx?
4. What factor constitute "superstructure"?
5. What stages of consciousness does Karl Marx speak of?
6. How can workers achieve their economic and political aim?
7. What are the two aspects of Marx's class conflict?
8. What happens when the workers become aware of their historic role?
14. Give a summary of the text.
UNIT 8
Do-It-Yourself Assignment
1. Revise the list of key terms and say what each term means.
2. Write down 12-15 questions on the contents of texts 1-7. Organize a talk
in your group asking your classmates about the main concepts of stratification
found in the writings of social philosophers since ancient times to Marx.
3.a) Make an outline of texts 1-7,
b) copy out the key words from every text and get ready to speak on
the development of the sociological thought from Plato to Karl Marx.
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