Historical materialism, a system of sociology

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SOCIETY : a. Concept of I Napesete: Tones ate Real Ageremarest b. Society as a Real Aggregate or a System; c. The Character of the Social Relations; d. Society and Personality ; Precedence of Society over the Individual; e. Societies in Process of Formation.

Chapter Five

THE EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN SOCIETY AND NATURE a. Nature as the Environment of Society; b. Relations between Society and Nature; The Process of Production and Reproduction; c. The Productive Forces; The Productive Forces as an Indicator of the Relations between Society and Nature; d. The Equilibrium between Nature and Society; its Disturbances and Readjustments ; e. The Productive Forces as the Point of Departure in Sociological

Analysis.

Chapter Six

THE EQUILIBRIUM BETWEEN THE ELEMENTS OF SOCIETY : ; a. Connection between the Varere Shalt PHENO renee Roni lation of the Question; b. Things, Persons, Ideas; c.

Social Technology and the Economic Structure of Society ;

d. The Outlines of the Superstructure; e. Social Psychology

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CONTENTS and Social Ideology; f. The Ideological Processes considered as Differentiated Labor; g. The Significance of the Superstructures; h. The Formative Principles of Social Life; i. Types of Economic Structure; Types of Various Societies; j. The Contradictory Character of Evolution; External and Internal Equilibrium of Society.

Chapter Seven

DISTURBANCE AND READJUSTMENT OF SOCIAL EQUILIBRIUM a. The Process of Social Granees al the Pondtecnes parece b. The Productive Forces and the Social-Economic Structure; c. The Revolution and its Phases; d. Cause and Effect in the Transition Period; Cause and Effect in Periods of Decline; e. The Evolution of the Productive Forces and the Materialization of Social Phenomena (Accumulation of Civilization) ; {. The Process of Reproduction of Social Life as a Whole.

Chapter Eight

THE CLASSES AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE a. Class, Caste, Vocation; b. Class Interest; c. Class Barchole ogy and Class Ideology; d. The “Class in itself” and the “Class for itself’; e. Forms of a Relative Solidarity of Interests; f. Class Struggle and Class Peace; g. The Class Struggle and the State Power; h. Class, Party, Leaders; i. The Classes as an Instrument of Social Transformation; j. The Classless Society of the Future.

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