Classical Frameworks: Historical Materialism and

Human Personality

Sir. Charles
HISTORICAL MATERIALISM & KARL
MARX
Karl Marx approached the nature if Western society in the
perspective of the "economy".

Capitalist - owner of the factory (or any piece of technology) .

Proletariat -workers

Anyone who controls the capital (raw materials and the

means of production) becomes the ruling class.

Historical materialism - history has been a story of conflict

between classesbetween the haves and have-nots, the ruling
class and the dominated class, and the elites and the
workers.
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PSYC S ICAL
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In Freudian perspective,
"socialization" the lifelong
process of learning the ways and
behaviors appropriate to a
particular society, is not only an
external conflict or structural
process but also an internal,
mental process.
More importantly,
socialization reflects the
ongoing conflict - an inner
ward - between biology
and society.
In the inner psyche of the
individual - the unconscious and
conscious self - societal presence
is constantly being engaged with
by the person.
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