SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Financialization, Meritocracy, Hunter-Gatherer

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 103
• Professor: Zabedia Nazim

Document Summary

No surplus so you had to carry your things. Survival of the group, need skills of communication, sharing etc. Increase in population- have to increase food supply. Divisions in society, people who had surplus had connection to god. Values of cooperation started to shift, gender division. Feudalism is an agricultural system, social, economic, political system. Sef peasants- wo(cid:396)ked fo(cid:396) the la(cid:374)d o(cid:449)(cid:374)e(cid:396)s lot of the la(cid:271)ou(cid:396) (cid:449)e(cid:374)t i(cid:374)to ag(cid:396)i(cid:272)ultu(cid:396)al, do(cid:373)esti(cid:272)ation. Merchants- travel to places and acquire things and trade them in city-> bourgeoisie. You cannot change your class society, you die in that society. Fi(cid:396)st, it (cid:449)as a fi(cid:454)ed s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) of (cid:396)e(cid:374)t . re(cid:374)t s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) sta(cid:396)ted (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out (cid:373)o(cid:374)e(cid:455) i(cid:374)stead of the la(cid:271)ou(cid:396)"s produce. Beginnings of market economy, people go into town and they exchange things. Instead of things, they started exchanging money for things. Starting in the 14th century, feudalism is introduced. Dominant class force lower class to pay them their produce.