SOCB42H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hermeneutics, Conformity, Auguste Comte
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Politics: less poverty, middle class property owners. The middle class have enough money to care about it a revolution is bad for property owners as they will lose everything: commercial habits. A lot of ppl are buying trading item and they want a source of stability: lack of public spirit. Is going to make revolution very hard to live if all these things stay in place. Realm of ideas/ culture: democracy has similar opinions. Were not very diffn from each other we are all equal: incremental innovation. Innovation comes piece by piece not as a flash, the world changes very slowly: domestic concerns. You only care about your home life no thought of movements to change the world. Ppl are worried about the next day: conformism. What other ppl think is very important. Most ppl will conform to societies ways as they do not want to stick out.
