SOC 472 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nationstates, Dragonlance, Economic Surplus

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 472
• Professor: Silvano Guzzo

Document Summary

Religion"s impact on work: protestant reformation impacted work and the change from artisan work to industrialized work, calvinism = the self-fulfilling prophesy, their own behaviour of hard work and thric and risk taking brought them economic success. The fact that people are related is an advantage because trust is inherent. In some societies work was also carried out by people who were slaves (composed of people who lost wars or conflicts) In the middle ages slavery was replaced by serfdom: serfs were agricultural workers who were free but they worked as farmers in order to survive. If the land was sold, the serfs would be part of the transaction: slavery became more widespread in the united states, the caribbean, and south. Plantation workers started out being poor irish and african workers. Just as in india, where ascription determined what jobs you were allowed to do. In this time, schools did not teach trades.