SOCB42H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Alexis De Tocqueville
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Smith - way of understanding what modern society is if definining that as commercial society the key change or new way of living is emergence of market, market order, exchange relationships, division of labour, money. Pure operation of market order principle of supply and principle of demand. What kinds of politics, legal systems, family etc. Marx industarlism, production, capatlism, private poverty capatlism as mosde of production profit exploitation, alienation what is religion like and family like in capatlist society. Smith modern commercial society after feudal society. He came from the oldest nobles families in france. Tocqueville modern society is the end of the old world rather then the beggining of something new. The aristocratic order - allowed for people to cultivate better parts of themselves glory, honour, faith, nobility hard ot be those things in democratic society. He didn"t think that it will be possible to stop the coming of the new world.
