CRI343H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Core Countries, Social Disorganization Theory, Unequal Exchange
Document Summary
Idea that we can have political systems based on choice and free will. Ideas about human rights came to be supported by merchant class, middles classes, professional classes because in their interest against aristocracy. Led to changes in govt, law, cj: 4) continued power of industrialization in 1800 and 1900s. Led to success and wealth for some: gave a lot more prestige to science, seemed to show superiority of modernist ideas. How is modernization used to understand cjs: modernization approach or orthodox social model, standard and non-critical model tends to assume law and cj is not very contentious, law operates in interests of everyone and is neutral. Idea of progress (agriculture to economy, rural to urban, monarchy to democratic systems, tradition to modernity: linear trajectory of history. What is meant by progress: rooted in idea that cjs are product of enlightenment.