SOSC 1430 Lecture Notes - Simpletech, Social Stratification, Heredity
13 Oct 2013
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We cant assume that all societies were all alike we must look at their history. It is important to look to understand diversity. He will make it look like there were two different types of society. To dispel the idea that european societies were superior and thus they were able to conquer. In some cases they conquered superior societies, maybe because of their fucked up political systems. Some colonies had advanced economic and social systems . Had developed independently and had vast trade systems. Colonialism is related to capitalism and its rise character was defined by it. When we think of colonialism it was certainly not a one way process in which a powerful society takes over a less powerful one it was a two sided equation. On one hand you have the colonizer will define how they colonize. Nature of societies that colonized (processes of development, political system)
