SOC 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Proletariat, Invisible Hand, Oligopoly

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 104
• Professor: Lock Rebecca

Document Summary

A producing class of serfs, or peasants serfs the producing class. Serfs were compliant because of non-economic coercion (punishment). Worked most of the week on the lord"s land, all productions taken by the lord. For a small art of the week they worked on produce their own food either on their own allotment of land or the common, which was held for public use. There was no minor classes such as artisans, soldiers, and clergy, Hierarchy of wealth and power within the two major classes: land was divided into or estates that were held by royalty and then parceled out of the lords or knights. Almost all social relations were tied to these estates which could not be brought or sold in the way we know it; other than through inheritance land could be acquired only through seizure, through bestowal or through marriage.