SOCIOL 2R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Primitive Communism, Ancient Society, Bourgeoisie
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Ancient thinkers on inequality: hammurabi (king of ancient babylon around 1750 bc) Set down a code of laws which detailed the rights and duties of all his subjects. His laws differed for a man (different from the common man) and a common man - lower end man. His laws ignored women except as the property of their men: hindu laws of manu. Caste system strati ed society with xed social positions. Divides all the whole of indian society on the notion of pollution and purity. Much like the caste system, justi es slavery. Economic system of capitalism based on the notion of freedom. 1947: 64): bourgeoisie = ruling class, owns most of societies wealth and means of production. Western society developed through four main stages: primitive communism, ancient society, feudal society, capitalist society. In the earlier epochs of history, we nd almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank.
