SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Labour Power, Proletariat, Securitization
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A complex social/economic/political system of duties between individuals: class of owners: owners (nobility) Hierarchy of wealth and power within the two major classes. Even though classical feudalism was harsh, peasants were protected due to the feudal bonds. Now they could be unemployed without any means of subsistence. Monarchs gained political power and capitalists gained economic power: monarchs realized that their political power could be expanded via the wealth of the rapidly expanding capital class. Capitalists sought the protection of a strong leader who could limit the power of feudal lords: nation: the notion of a group of people living within a geographical boundary who share a common language culture and history. John locke: argued ppl have inherent rights (to life, property and liberty) which exist independent of the laws of any particular society: max weber felt that the origins of capitalism were closely linked to a new form of. Christianity that spread around 15 th century in northern europe.
