SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Child Labour, Corn Laws, Classical Liberalism

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

Document Summary

Tradition & modernity: reading and films in context, traditional (hierarchical) society, modern (mass) society, the great transformation, liberalism & modernity verse the paternalistic model , james burke: the factory and marketplace revolution. *there is no pure modern or traditional society because these terms are not dichotomous, meaning they are not black and white, and can share parts with other. Thompson (1968): is a marxists and he brings this outlook on his research. Shills (1982) on the other hand likes modernity. Pro modernity bias in this week"s readings. Multi culturalism and honour killings, when families pray on their own. Child labor is as real today as it was back in the day. A woman who was to have sex without being married: she should be killed . The greek village as a model of the traditional society. The traditional society is the family and the way they deal with society: the extended family .