SOCB42H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Puritans, Positive Force, The Immigrants
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Classical soc november 9 lecture 8. The new world, not so much as a continent that was discovered, but new in the sense of being a new era in human history. A new kind of way of organizing history: the general name for that kind of life is called modernity. In smith, we saw what a modern society looks like ift eh basic key to understanding it is the rise of a commercial society: commerce. The rise of markets and a market order; exchanging; the. Comte had a different set of perceptions. Thought that ideas really define the characters of society. Thought that the rise of science (enlightenment) was the main feature of a modern society. He goes on to ask what the rise of this cultural belief system (based on science) affects everything else. Marx took the focus away from ideas, but shuifted it back to economic life. He focused on a different aspect than smith though.
