SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Egalitarianism, Enculturation, Transnationalism
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Geller: nationalism is rooted in a certain kind of division of labor, one which is complex and persistently, cumulatively changing (p. 57) Economy is constantly changing, and that is how we make money(based on shifts in the economy) Giving up deep economic ties to family, in order to prosper: family cannot be economic priority/ source, because you have to become an individual, mobility: Adapting rapidly to changes in the economic system. Turning to other ways of producing wealth: turning to commercialized agriculture, landlords evicted the people(freeing the people from the land) Egalitarianism: modern society is not mobile because it is egalitarian; it is egalitarian because it is mobile. Moreover, it has to be mobile whether it wishes to be so or not, because this is required by the satisfaction of its terrible and overwhelming thirst for economic growth. Massive shift of european people off the land = immigrants to other countries: because they couldn"t find work.
