SOSC 1430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Maurice Dobb, Social Evolution, Solidarity
2 Apr 2016
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Key themes: progress, social evolution, change, and development by stages (rostow, last week) Theories: a set of propositions which summarize, organize and explain. Importance of the state- as agent of economic development. Modernization resulted with socio- cultural and economic change. Expansion of us markets in the decolonizing world (africa and asia) Maurice dobb: progress is the law of life and continuous improvement is the normal state of a healthy society . All shared intellectual concern trying to identify the basic features of societies that promoted their development. Influence of charles darwin in early social science: biological evolution/ adaptation/ social change. Progressive understanding of social and economic change. Communism, slavery, feudalism, capitalism, socialism and the class-less society: communism. Class exploitation-class struggle, the motor of history. Social solidarity and in how these forms of change in developed societies. Mechanic solidarity: exists in traditional societies with low level of individuality (but high levels of moral cohesiveness)
