Shen Te’s "open door policy" with people on the street alienated her business
Base and Superstructure metaphor to explain the idea of relations with regard to "the social production of their existence" forms economic basis that is ran by politics & legal institutions or superstructure. Civilian conflicts between the development of material productive forces & relations of productions causes social revolutions, & the result leads to the transformation of the superstructure
The 3 gods as judges due to Shen Te’s exploited heroic deeds
Class consciousnees refers to the awareness, so a social class posses its capacity to act on his/her own interest based on awareness. Thus class consciousness must be attained before the class can mount a successful revolution
Shen Te posing as Shui Ta keep afloat her business
Ideology a process accomplished by the so called thinker consciously or a heist, as it is true but with false consciousness. The real motive remains unknown to him. Hence he imagines false motives or forces. There society holds great importance since it confuses the alienated groups and can create false consciousness
Shen Te using Shui Ta as leverage. She transformed into a man b/c she had no perceived boundaries. Alongside Shui Ta carried a make believe demeanor or stigma created by the interpreted role of man
Historical Materialism looks for the causes of development & changes in society in which people collectively contribute consciously as a whole. Thus giving economic analysis to things that co-exists with the economic base of society
People convincing Shen Te to marry Yang Sun into money as if she didn’t provide her own means
Political Economy studies mechanisms on how people organize material & distributing surplus as a result. Political Economy studies means of production, espiasally capital or solid goods, & how it manifest into the economy
The family selling loose spare tobacco then distributes via Shen Te