SOCB30H3 Lecture 4: SOCB30H3 Lecture 4
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How capitalism came about & characteristics -> organizing principles: 3 conditions capitalism needs to survive. Are recurring throughout time: 3 mechanisms that capitalism uses to deal w obstacles. Capitalism in england: dominant mode of production, how did it become a world system. Colonialism a way to generate these 3 conditions, and how mechanisms. Colonialism definition used: the economic, political and military domination by one nation over another territory and its people. Economically driven: regardless of christianizing mission, ultimately had to do with economic motivations, need to secure access to labor and markets, made possible through violence. Slavery & racism important to relation to capitalism: integral elements. Colonial expansion to other territories: turning land into commodity, making people laborers and consumers, replicated on world scale, conquering as primitive accumulation. When colonizers reached territory in america indigenous displaced from. Colonialism emerging in places where it wasn"t before. Social relations that evolve: negative and long-lasting, nuisance of inequality, british - new class composition.
