SOCB42H3 Lecture Notes - Aristocracy, Social Order, Conformity
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Socb42 week 9 lecture thursday, november 7, 2013. Theories of the new world; new period of humanities/history. A period that is marked by a new way of living, different than how people had lived before that; spreading globally, interacting with societies around the world. Marx: starts from production and profit, thinks about changes as those, capitalism as a mode of production, private property, tries to understand how this transformation change everything in society, ex: religion, profit, exploitation, alienation. Both mark and smith: tries to understand development. Smith: placing commercial society after feudal society. He was an aristocrat (nobility: different from smith and marx. Came from the oldest noble family from france: father was a count. Imprisoned in prison during french revolution: grandfather was a knight. Modern society is the end of the old world, instead of the beginning of something new.
