Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat

Lukács, Georg

doi:10.4324/9781315251196-1

Cited by 31 publications

(39 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Time and again in these data, the status passage into complete tooth loss was masked, appearing as a thing in itself; as a natural event (Lukacs 1971, Taussig 1980. We would like to suggest, following Taussig that the signs and symptoms of oral disease 'are not "things-inthemselves", are not only biological and physical, but are also signs of social relations disguised as natural things' (Taussig 1980: 3).…”

Section: Awareness Contexts and The Status Passage Into Complete Tootmentioning

confidence: 92%

Complete tooth loss as status passage

Gibson

Sussex

Fitzgerald

et al. 2016

Sociology Health & Illness

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The aim of this paper is to add to the literature on the sociology of oral health and dentistry by presenting the relevance of status passage to the study of complete tooth loss. The paper reports on an analysis of data taken from participants residing in the Nelson region of New Zealand. In total the data include interviews from 20 participants, all of whom had their remaining natural teeth removed prior to 1960. In total, 12 women and eight men were interviewed. All were from a European background with an age range of 71 to 101. Participants were interviewed, following a narrative approach, on the nature of the social factors that resulted in complete tooth loss by starting with their family history and then focusing on the factors and events leading up to their total tooth loss.Data were analysed through the methods and techniques of grounded theory. This paper provides an outline of tatus passage into complete tooth loss. We conclude by arguing trajectories into complete tooth loss.

show abstract

Section: Awareness Contexts and The Status Passage Into Complete Tootmentioning

confidence: 92%

Complete tooth loss as status passage

Gibson

Sussex

Fitzgerald

et al. 2016

Sociology Health & Illness

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…We will follow Lukacs, confirming Rikert's notion of universal history, that "the totality of history is itself a real historical power -even though one that has not hitherto become conscious and has therefore gone unrecognised -a power which is not to be separated from the reality (and hence the knowledge) of the individual facts without at the same time annulling their reality and their factual existence. It is the real, ultimate ground of their reality and their factual existence and hence also of their knowability even as individual facts (Lukacs, 1923)." Hence, we will draw from the individual media, i.e.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Reflection of Transitional Society of Mytilene at the End of the Archaic Period (8th – 5th Century B.C.) a Study on Sappho’s “Ode to Anaktoria”

Kokkaliari

Sudardi

2017

j. of soc. sci. and relig.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article discusses Sappho’s “Ode to Anaktoria” (fragment 16) poem as a ‘marginal’ product of an aristocratic intellectual in the transitional society of Mytilene at the end of the Archaic Period (8th-5th century B.C.). The research method is a kind of media analysis. The mean of “media” in this paper related to “A means by which something is communicated or expressed” It is laso relate to the intervening substance through which sensory impressions are conveyed or physical forces are transmitted. Media also means as a substance in which an organism lives or is cultured. On the other hand, media is a material or form used by an artist, composer, or writer; We interpreted Ode to Anaktoria in the means as the terms of media above. Sappho (born 610, died 570 B.C.) is a renowned Greek lyric poetess and musician and is greatly admired in all ages for the beauty of her writing style. Plato’s 16th epigram dedicated to her reads “Some say there are nine Muses; but they should stop to think. Look at Sappho of Lesbos; she makes a tenth”. Sappho is additionally ranked among the Nine Lyric Poets esteemed by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria as worthy of critical study. “Ode to Anaktoria” is read through the historic-political concept of hegemony as suggested by Gramsci. In this view, the moment of “hegemony” or of cultural leadership is systematically upgraded precisely in opposition to the mechanistic and fatalistic concepts of economism. Sappho’s fragment 16 does not only indicate defiance to androcentric (epic) categories; she suggests nonnormative, thus new, ways of contemplating life (lyric).

show abstract

“…A significant proportion of software engineers who develop proprietary software as part of profit-oriented companies are also engaged in developing FOSS. The fallacy of “Reification” makes the relationship between people appear like a relationship between things (Lukács, 1968). A subset of reification is the Marxist concept of “Commodity Fetishism” wherein the relationship between people appears as the relationship between commodities.…”

Section: Capital–labor Dialectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Capital vs. Digital Labor in the Post-industrial Information Age: A Marxist Analysis

Kumar

Jena

2020

Emerging Economy Studies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the third millennium AD, humanity has reached the phase of the post-industrial information age. This age is characterized by the ubiquitous usage of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in all aspects of social reality. ICTs are not just a tool for automation of social production but are qualitatively different from other preceding technologies. It can be understood that ICTs are situated at the cutting edge of current global capitalism. There is a danger that ICTs are enhancing capitalist consumerism by converting the “complete human being” into the “complete consumer.” ICT-enabled “telework” has changed the “political economy of the home,” so that more surplus value can be extracted. ICTs have influenced the contestation of time between capital and labor that has been happening all through the history of capitalism. “Telework” and flexible production have influenced workers’ powers of collective bargaining. There are new challenges in organizing workers in the gig economy. When the ontological roots of ICTs are situated within the neo-Marxist Habermasian framework of critical theory, its potential for human emancipation is understood. On the contrary, there is also a danger that ICTs may end up as a tool to consolidate and strengthen the existing powers of the bourgeoisie. After engaging with such issues, this article surmises that the nature of the relation between capital and labor in the post-industrial information age is qualitatively different from the earlier industrial age. Nevertheless, it concludes that the possibilities of labor getting into a more just relation with capital and in the process bring about a more equitable global social order still exists.

show abstract

Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat

Cited by 31 publications

References 0 publications

Complete tooth loss as status passage

Complete tooth loss as status passage

The Reflection of Transitional Society of Mytilene at the End of the Archaic Period (8th – 5th Century B.C.) a Study on Sappho’s “Ode to Anaktoria”

Capital vs. Digital Labor in the Post-industrial Information Age: A Marxist Analysis

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About