SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Montesquieu, Wage War, Geopolitics
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Midterm: fifteen quotes taken from montesquieu, rousseau, smith, tocqueville, explain theoretical relevance (2 marks) Smith: based on two principles: division of labour, self-interest based on exchange, dol: everyone has a particular task to fulfil, if you do those tasks, you"ll be a well-oiled machine, you"ll produce more. He endorses the idea of labourers getting proper wage, because if you are not getting enough money you won"t be motivated to produce and the whole structure will collapse. P 71: the more money you get, the more motivated you"ll be , the more you"ll produce, the better this society will function. If you don"t give me enough there"ll be a stall. If we have this commercial society, it"s great, it"s something we should aspire to, although this is not something historically that he would have predicted. There are some kind of tortuous opening which led to commercial society, but now that it"s here it"s great, it makes sense.
