SOSC 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Productive Forces, Protestantism
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The rule of government changes because importance of people and the right to vote grew as capitalism became more democratic compared to its older stages. Liberalism was the early form of capitalism. As government becomes more democratic it plays more role in a family. Increasing socialization even though capitalism becomes bigger (especially where wealth is held, like corporate organization). Government becomes more democratic and intervenes in families, and workplaces of the people. Government can influence peoples" opinion through media. Go(cid:448)er(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol it so it legalized it. Competitive capitalism (1860-98), corporative capitalism (1898 1839), regulated capitalism (1839 1991), transnational capitalism (present). Materials conception of history starts from principal that production and exchanges is the bases of social order. Social relations are determined by what is produced and how the product is exchanged. For example, we grow corn and live in shared communal situation where we produce and share everything together and have no hierarchical order.