POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Bourgeoisie, False Consciousness, Proletariat
12 Oct 2012
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Twin revolutions 16th 19th centuries, agricultural and industrial. Agricultural revolution: may be hyperbole to use the word recvolution here. Tenhnological evolutions that allowed this to be possible (and lead to surplus) came through over time. Amount of iron processed into steel in english factories produced huge changes in domestic consumption. There were also consequences luxuries came to be seen more as decencies and decencies came to be seen as necessities. Distribution highly uneven but now creation of middle class has risen from manual labour to professional or entrepreneurial status (business men) Ir social results increasing complexity of division of labour (pre-modern societies) Huge sociological changes new groups of people who weren"t around before. There were social results the capacity to produce surplus. Ex: think aboriginals"" religious figure: called a medicine man. If you had a health problem or a spiritual problem you would go to the same person. Modern societies tend to separate those two functions.
