SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aristocracy, English Poor Laws, Moral Economy

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Judith Adler Hellman

Document Summary

Bell coming of mass production because of the industrial. Modernity face problems against: religion probation against. Karl polany: the great transformation , movement from traditional society to modernity, modernity arrives with the creation of disembedded self- regulating free market economy. The economy didn"t have a life of its own. Assize of bread, corn laws, poor law. Free market economy: aka: capitalist economy. Defining characteristics of economy: land, capital and labour factors of. Become a commodity that are production bought and sold. Shows modernity has arrived: transformation of traditional and modern society corresponds with the industrial revolution. Worth price: thomas hobbs definition: the value or worth of a man is his. Marx: the bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the economy / world of production (?) Thompson: talks about the food rise, classical conservatism (tradition) bread was a staff of life. Eternalistic system regulated economy you could.