SOCI 3692 Lecture 3: POLS 3692 LECTURE 3
21 Dec 2017
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Previously, there were real economic difficulties by droughts, wars. With the social questions, there wasn"t an obvious cause. What made it more mysterious was that is was poverty increasing, with increasing wealth. Poverty could not be explained in terms of economic theory or political theory. Free market mechanisms were the most efficient forms of distribution of goods. Sometimes economists talked about this poverty in demographic terms. That is was caused by population growing faster than economic production. There was a belief that the social question could be answered. This was true relative to the emergence of the second republic. The second republic established national workshops to provide the unemployed with employment. Much of the population didn"t want to see their taxes increased. That was the end of the belief that democracy would provide a solution to the social question. Sociology emerges as a critique of economic theory. Marx wrote the manifesto prior to the 1848 revolutions.
