SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Primitive Communism, Ancient Society, Bourgeoisie
19 Sep 2016
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Soc 2r03 lecture 3: the great debate: ancient thinkers on inequality, hammurai (king of ancient babylon around 1750 bc) Caste system stratified society with fixed social positions: divides all the whole of indian society on the notion of pollution and purity. Those who wanted to keep the order of society vs those who wanted to challenge this order. Plato (regarded as a radical: aristotle (seen as a conservative) In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the middle ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations. The modern bourgeoisie society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with clash antagonisms.
