Real Human Actors, Social Roles and Social Structures Sample Clauses

Real Human Actors, Social Roles and Social Structures. This section will analyse Xxxx’x project and method in Capital, making the claim that an adequate account of his work shows it to transcend the well-worn opposition between structure and agency. Xxxx'x Capital is a work that investigates the dynamics of the structural forms of the capitalist mode of production in meticulous detail. His presentation proceeds from the simple commodity to determine an increasingly rich body of concepts that “tend towards the concrete as they are articulated in the totality”.11 The structural aspect of Xxxx'x analysis, I would argue, is inseparable from his theory of classes, within which it is possible to determine certain social roles, such as the capitalist and the worker. At the same time, for Xxxx, definite human beings are both the premise and the result of his investigations. The voices of real human actors appear in Capital. They are drawn from all segments of the capitalist class and their representatives, from landowners, parliamentarians, and factory inspectors, and even from the workers who appear in parliamentary reports; the Blue Books from which Xxxx often quotes. They consist of complaints by capitalists about a threat to their profits, or the interventions of the factory inspectors over transgressions of the factory laws by mill owners, or indeed statements by workers about the conditions in which they are forced to live:
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