SOCIOL 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Free Rider Problem, Social Stratification, Scottish Enlightenment
13 Jul 2016
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Seeing humankind as naturally pure and good, rousseau appealed to biology and human instincts to explain social outcomes. Sees the emergence of private property, the idea that a person has the right to own something, as the primary source of social ills. Social equality-a condition in which no differences in wealth, power, prestige, or status based on nonnatural conventions exist. According to rousseau, there are two forms of inequality. Physical (natural)- consists in difference of age, health, bodily strength, and the qualities of the mind or of the soul. Social (political)- depends on a kind of conventional inequality and is established or at least authorized by the consent of men. This latter consists of the different privileges which some men enjoy to the prejudice of others, such as that of being more rich, more honored, more powerful, or even in a position to exact obedience.
