SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Invisible Hand, Industrial Revolution, Chicago School Of Economics

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

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What he has to say about the working capitalist society is more sophisticated than anyone else on that subject. He was popular among american sociologists during wwii. He came from scotland because scotland is a country which has a. In order to understand god"s purpose, you must understand the bible (literate) He left school at age 14 in 1740 and went to oxford. He thought the underclasses drank too much and didn"t study. After oxford, he returned to scotland and gave lectures paid for by a nobleman. At 28, he became a professor of logic at glasgow university. In 1759 he produces his first book, the theory of moral sentiments. Book describing human behaviour, not a book about ethics. He gave up being a professor and became a tutor to the son of a duke. Aristocratic world where the leading son takes a grand tour of europe and smith is in charge of the son.