POL SCI 51A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Antonio Gramsci, False Consciousness, French Revolution
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North west europe (north germany, england) has historically developed a stronger economy faster than other european countries. As you go south east there is a regressive patern. It is sill like this in the present. Agricultural revoluion: may be hyperbole to use the word world revoluion . Farmers develop newer ways to farm (across the coninent it occurs in england in the 16th century, by the ime it gets to russia it"s the 18th century). Not really a revoluion because it occurred too slowly. Industrial revoluion (18th century) iron and coton (raw materials) increase dramaically in a very short period of ime (tenfold increase). Consequences luxuries came to be seen and mere decencies and decencies came to be seen as necessiies. Distribuion was uneven, but now creaion of middle class that had risen from manual labor to profession status. Social results capacity to produce surplus (more) Society becomes more complex increasing complexity of division of labor (specializaion of professions).