SOCY 122 Chapter Notes -Decommodification, Homo Economicus, Invisible Hand

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Marxism and the dialectic of dynamic unstable social formations. Knowledge gained through human reason would allow humans to be free. Charles-louis de secondat (montesquieu) -focused on the nature of things themselves. Adam ferguson and adam smith- questioned freedom, social oppression, and. Largely gallic tradition-opposed by interpretive meaning in understanding social life. David hume, adam ferguson, adam smith, and dugald stewart were the roots of political economy and emphasized the social context within which people live to explain behavior. David hume believed that there is a common and consistent nature" to humanity, learn through the senses -> against descartes and plato. Rousseau agreed with hume that there is a preceded state of nature" to society. Ferguson-believes civil society is a historical-natural constant" and nothing else and that man is the perfection of his natural faculties. Feared that the increase division of labour would negatively impact the people in capitalist societies.