DSOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Bourgeoisie
12 Jun 2016
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Cheerleader for revolutionary middle class ( rising bourgeoisie ) team: middle class and ordinary people rising in england, society was getting richer in england. Social science compromised by partisanship ( cheerleading : not neutral. The intellectual & practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical, social, and natural world through observation ad experiment. Used for exchange, in particular precious metals. Exchange equilibrates labor needed to produce different goods & services. Money is the nominal price of a good, labor the real price. Wealth is based on how dexterous the labor is, As labor productivity increases, wealth of the society increases too. Now: bigger the military, bigger the economy: us has biggest military spending us has strongest economy, other countries have less military spending. Bigger the population, bigger the agricultural production (to feed people) china had the strongest economy back in 1750: potato population explosion, silk road (africa, europe, asia = afro-eurasia) agricultural societies traded.
