Sociology 1
Nathaniel Benshabat
CORC. 3211
December 22, 2014
Professor Green
Black Political Identity in a Transnational Context
The Dialectical Historical Materialism, or DHM, is a sociological theory of human
society, which deals with the most general laws of nature, society and thought. It sees in the
development of material goods, necessary to human existence the primary force that determines
all social life and which conditions the transition from one kind of social order to another. The
growth of human power over nature finds its expression in the development of the productive
