CPCF 1F25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Responsibility, Anti-Capitalism, Counter-Reformation
2 Jan 2017
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The european roots of media and western society. Feudal society, dominated by the roman catholic church: hierarchical: politically, economically, and socially, principally oral society (sermons, no form of mass communication (cid:498)the great chain of being(cid:499) The printing press: literacy, ideas travel, non-clerical intellectual communities (ex. Slow emergence of (cid:498)public sphere(cid:499) and civil society. New ideas from other regions could lead to social change and alchemy, etc. ) destabilization. The reformation (1500-1700: protestantism, martin luther, printing of the bible made it more accessible to people, weakening the power of the church. Counter reformation (1550-1650: re-establishment of church and state as heads of power, censorship, and state control of printing and publishing, regional and relatively short-lived. The enlightenment (the age of reason) (1700-1800: return to humanism and development of scientific method, key thinkers: john locke, voltaire, jean-jacques rousseau, and adam. Smith: american revolution (1765-1783, french revolution (1789-1799, the bourgeoisie, capitalism.
