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FILL IN THE BLANK QUESTIONS ON    TM  4:  NEO MARXISM          Fall,  2010

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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ESSAY QUESTION ON   TM  4:   NEO MARXISM       Fall, 2010 

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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