SOSC 1375 Lecture 16:

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1375
• Professor: mansoor

Document Summary

Local peasants become poorer as a result of having people mostly use privately owned land. Furnace / machine giving power metals: watt machine: tendency to explode. Idea that you can take a traditional way of doing things and improve upon it amount of product, prices are 10x less, and overall more efficient: undermines traditional crafts. Reaction: result of rationalization and machinery that displaces workers from traditional ways. Industrial revolution only functions due to increase and implementing new technologies (new ways of doing old things but faster and cheaper as time goes on. In liberalism if everyone can peruse there own happiness then the society will be happy. Utilitaria(cid:374)is(cid:373) is people are selfish a(cid:374)d fo(cid:272)us pleasure o(cid:448)er pai(cid:374). It"s the idea that people (cid:449)ill al(cid:449)ays choose plesure over pain. By allowing people to chase there selfish goals and making them happy leads to utilitarianism conclusion.