SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Individualism, Corn Laws, Classical Liberalism

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Terry Conlin

Document Summary

1 the readings and the films in context. 2 traditional (hierarchical) society: modern (mass) society, the great transformation, liberalism & modernity versus the paternalist model , james burke: the factory & marketplace revolution. The cold war provides the context for all readings. Pro-modernity bias exists in all of the readings. The basic unit of society is the family. Not the nuclear family, but the extended family. Family is the welfare state of society; it provides security for a strong set of obligations. The needs of the family override individuals in the family. Us vs. them ideal exists in traditional society where us is the family, and them is everyone else outside the family. There is hostility, fear and suspicion to those outside the family. Your task in traditional society is to enhance the prestige of your family and never to make it lose any. Obligations to the family include being married and producing sonslots and lots of sons.