SOSC 1340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Negative Liberty, Social Science, Commodification
29 Mar 2017
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Evaluation: what is vs. what ought to be. Income inequality has been rising since the 1980s in the us (how do we know? ask a social scientist) Excessive inequality undermines freedom of rich and poor (ask a political theorist) Using ethical theories: a standard of judging the rightness and wrongness of actions, policies and institutional arrangements (what"s wrong with what"s going on?) Philosopher, legal theorist and social reformer who sought to ground the analysis and reform of law and other institutions on the principle of utility. Also famous for designing a prison: the panopticon" a round design with a guard in the centre who could monitor all the cells. Destruction of the old social, economic, political and ideological order, creation of a new one giddens on modernity". Capitalism emerges (17th -18th c): spokesmen of the new economic classes seeking political power: john locke, two treatises of government (1689) and adam smith, the.
