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1. Marx said revolution would happen in _____________________ capitalist countries, not in underdeveloped peripheral countries like Russia, China, Cuba, etc. 2. Historical materialism holds that history develops dialectically in that one era develops ______________________________ which are resolved by the new era 3. Lukacs agrees w/ Marx that production is a ______________________ human activity, & adds the idea that as production itself becomes a fetishized commodity, it becomes depersonalized & tries to encompass our entire life 4. For many social theorists, cultural _____________________ systems, ideology, ethnicity & religion, can cause a lot of conflict 5. Existential philosophers have often used the terms _______________________ & inauthentic in a manner similar to class & false consciousness 6. Gramsci believed that the people could control ______________________ society via a coalition of oppositional groups 7. For Marcuse, America appears to lack internal economic contradictions because the world has _______________________ from capitalism 8. For Habermas, _______________________ legitimizes capitalism by using apparently rational arguments 9. The "hallmark of modernity" is the _________________________ of the Life-World by the System 10. A full partnership between the System & the Life-World would constitute the completion of ________________________'s project 11. For Habermas, a requirement to establish ___________________________ claims is that the speaker is honestly voicing an opinion 12. For Braverman, one of the methods mgt. uses to control labor is that __________________________ has created the assembly line which controls the nature & pace of work 13. For Edwards, w/ __________________________________ control, mgrs. would not tend to use identical techniques & thus standardization & coordination was difficult to maintain 14. Hyperrationalization & McDonaldization all indicate an advancement in _________________________________ 15. For Wallerstein until the industrial age, the semi-periphery
had ______________________________ as its primary form of labor
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Essays should be two, average length, hand written pages long. Be sure & answer all parts of the question. 1. Discuss the concepts of ideology, class & false consciousness,
& Habermas' communicative action.
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