SOSC 1009 Lecture Notes - Classical Liberalism, Industrial Revolution, Social Democracy

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1009
• Professor: Terry Conlin

Document Summary

E. h. carl the road to freedom pro keynesian ideas. Hayak was opposed to this: the road to serfdom , he preferred classical liberal ideas. In the early 1970"s dominant ideology ran into trouble (no longer explained the condition people lived in) and so the voice of the opposed is heard. Social democracy and ideas related to marxist ideology (socialism and democracy are not compatible. The state is a part of the bourgeoisie. But the ideology and social reality had a big gap. Reassertion of islamic ideas, feminism, environmentalism: mcneill said we have gone beyond the limit to make history, scientific and we have to give importance to myth. Today"s topic: campbell (1964) and thompson (1968) readings. History is progress and the greatest moment was the industrial revolution. Thompson is trying to get us to look at the industrial revolution from the bottom up. He debates the major thinkers of his time about industrial revolution being a good thing.