SOCI 330 Lecture 5: Smith (part 2)

• School: McGill University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 330
• Professor: Lindsay John

Document Summary

Smith is living amidst something new: trying to understand where it originated. Smith has a theory of history: four different stages in mind different from marx. Hunters and foragers / hunters and gatherers. Concerned with the sheep herders of the atlas mountains of. He says it is a particular stage in human history. European societies which have been futile what he is concerned with most of all. How he thinks commercial societies are working. Smith says very simply that normally, what matters is that agriculture is the source of wealth. Agriculture is more important than cities: the natural progress of opulence is agriculture first. Later on, if there is some sort of surplus, cities become possibly. Lots of explanations for this (cid:862)upo(cid:374) e(cid:395)ual o(cid:396) (cid:374)ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) e(cid:395)ual p(cid:396)ofits, (cid:373)ost (cid:373)e(cid:374) (cid:449)e(cid:396)e . Not in manufactures or in fo(cid:396)eig(cid:374) t(cid:396)ade i(cid:374) la(cid:374)d u(cid:374)de(cid:396) his (cid:448)ie(cid:449) . Of hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) foll(cid:455) a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)justi(cid:272)e (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t(cid:396)ies to (cid:373)e(cid:374) .