Unit 4, Activity 1, Industrial Revolution Vocabulary
... place a “yes” in the column under each economic system if the feature applies to it. Key Features Privately-owned means of production State-owned means of production ...
... place a “yes” in the column under each economic system if the feature applies to it. Key Features Privately-owned means of production State-owned means of production ...
The Golden Age of Steam - the Solent Electronic Archive
... presumed the contradictory (and exploitative) elements of capitalism could be redeemed by reforming the financial system. Monetary sector transition, whilst beneficial, was illusory and would simply leave surplus value, falling profit rates and rentier incomes (with their extraction of usury and des ...
... presumed the contradictory (and exploitative) elements of capitalism could be redeemed by reforming the financial system. Monetary sector transition, whilst beneficial, was illusory and would simply leave surplus value, falling profit rates and rentier incomes (with their extraction of usury and des ...
HST 101: World History I - The Evergreen State College
... Attendance is required and will be regularly taken. At the end of the term, a student’s attendance will be measured and a corresponding grade assigned. In general, one cannot receive an “A” (i.e. 90% or better ) for attendance if one has missed more than 3 classes, regardless of the circumstances. T ...
... Attendance is required and will be regularly taken. At the end of the term, a student’s attendance will be measured and a corresponding grade assigned. In general, one cannot receive an “A” (i.e. 90% or better ) for attendance if one has missed more than 3 classes, regardless of the circumstances. T ...
A "Feudal Mutation"? Conceptual Tools and Historical Patterns in
... as in its broad term in its restricted military feudalism ...
... as in its broad term in its restricted military feudalism ...
Capitalism and Degrowth— An Impossibility Theorem
... A society based on economic contraction cannot exist under capitalism. But capitalism is a deceptively simple word for a long, complex history. Getting rid of the capitalists and banning wage labour, currency and private ownership of the means of production would plunge society into chaos. It would ...
... A society based on economic contraction cannot exist under capitalism. But capitalism is a deceptively simple word for a long, complex history. Getting rid of the capitalists and banning wage labour, currency and private ownership of the means of production would plunge society into chaos. It would ...
"NEW" THEORIES OF THE PUBLIC AND ACTUALITY
... may be, their influence is based on arguments, which the lay public extracts from a flood of symbols, according to both Habermas and Mayhew. Arguments are the content of influence, which confers an egalitarian and communicative character on persuasion processes, Mayhew follows Talcott Parsons (1967) ...
... may be, their influence is based on arguments, which the lay public extracts from a flood of symbols, according to both Habermas and Mayhew. Arguments are the content of influence, which confers an egalitarian and communicative character on persuasion processes, Mayhew follows Talcott Parsons (1967) ...
the economics of the new phase of imperialism
... ignore its caprices, and jettisons "sound finance" and deflationism in pursuit of higher employment, then finance will move out of the country, precipitating a liquidity crisis and bringing the government to its knees. This fact keeps nation-States in thraldom to the caprices of international financ ...
... ignore its caprices, and jettisons "sound finance" and deflationism in pursuit of higher employment, then finance will move out of the country, precipitating a liquidity crisis and bringing the government to its knees. This fact keeps nation-States in thraldom to the caprices of international financ ...
1. The process of capital accumulation can be conceptually envisaged as... two distinct and alternative ways. I shall call the first...
... ignore its caprices, and jettisons "sound finance" and deflationism in pursuit of higher employment, then finance will move out of the country, precipitating a liquidity crisis and bringing the government to its knees. This fact keeps nation-States in thraldom to the caprices of international financ ...
... ignore its caprices, and jettisons "sound finance" and deflationism in pursuit of higher employment, then finance will move out of the country, precipitating a liquidity crisis and bringing the government to its knees. This fact keeps nation-States in thraldom to the caprices of international financ ...
from Memoirs of Prince Klemens von Metternich
... individuals, to families, and to property, are quite simple in their essence. The people dread any movement which injures industry and brings new burdens in its train. There is besides scarcely any epoch which does not offer a rallying cry to some particular faction. This cry, since 1815, has been C ...
... individuals, to families, and to property, are quite simple in their essence. The people dread any movement which injures industry and brings new burdens in its train. There is besides scarcely any epoch which does not offer a rallying cry to some particular faction. This cry, since 1815, has been C ...
The Incorporation of Symbolic Inequality - Der WWW2
... consider all of them to be components of symbolically mediated practice. The term ’symbol’ refers to Ernst Cassirer’s (1997) interpretation of humanly produced entities as imbued with meaning. The term ’practice’ refers to the processes within the human realm. From this perspective, all symbols are ...
... consider all of them to be components of symbolically mediated practice. The term ’symbol’ refers to Ernst Cassirer’s (1997) interpretation of humanly produced entities as imbued with meaning. The term ’practice’ refers to the processes within the human realm. From this perspective, all symbols are ...
Roccu R - Again on the Revolutionary Subject
... the middle class in itself is a somewhat vague referent, as it simply ‘finds itself between a top class, comprising the elite, and a lower class, comprising the masses’ (Luciani 2007, 163), the self-identification as middle class of specific social strata has social and political implications. Two o ...
... the middle class in itself is a somewhat vague referent, as it simply ‘finds itself between a top class, comprising the elite, and a lower class, comprising the masses’ (Luciani 2007, 163), the self-identification as middle class of specific social strata has social and political implications. Two o ...
Kritik Core - Georgia Debate Institute
... about power, leads to the fallacy of a low-impact, green capitalism somehow put at the service of environmentalism. In reality, power concentrates around wealth. Private ownership of trade and industry means that the decisive political force in the world is private power. The corporation will outfla ...
... about power, leads to the fallacy of a low-impact, green capitalism somehow put at the service of environmentalism. In reality, power concentrates around wealth. Private ownership of trade and industry means that the decisive political force in the world is private power. The corporation will outfla ...
Lecture 6: The Sociology of Anomie
... overconformist. Here, the pursuit of the dominant cultural goal of economic success is rejected or abandoned (-) and compulsive conformity to institutional norms (+) becomes an end in itself. Merton argues that this adaptation is most likely to occur within the lower middle class of American society ...
... overconformist. Here, the pursuit of the dominant cultural goal of economic success is rejected or abandoned (-) and compulsive conformity to institutional norms (+) becomes an end in itself. Merton argues that this adaptation is most likely to occur within the lower middle class of American society ...
Social Class in the United States
... self-directed. Many have graduate degrees with educational attainment serving as the main distinguishing feature of this class. Household incomes commonly may exceed $100,000, with some smaller one-income earners household having incomes in the high 5-figure range.[4] [2] Members of this class commo ...
... self-directed. Many have graduate degrees with educational attainment serving as the main distinguishing feature of this class. Household incomes commonly may exceed $100,000, with some smaller one-income earners household having incomes in the high 5-figure range.[4] [2] Members of this class commo ...
Industrial Age Revolution
... Try to use the following questions to guide your research: What did Marx mean by communism and socialism? What did Smith mean by the invisible hand? Who was Robert Owen, and what was utopian socialism? Why did communism take hold in Russia? ...
... Try to use the following questions to guide your research: What did Marx mean by communism and socialism? What did Smith mean by the invisible hand? Who was Robert Owen, and what was utopian socialism? Why did communism take hold in Russia? ...
“The Bourgeoisie, Historically, Has Played a Most Revolutionary Part”:
... So far, so good – but the expanded reproduction of capital and thus the reproduction of the capital-labour relation is no smooth and simple matter; on the contrary, it is a profoundly crisis-prone affair. Crises of accumulation can be defined as interruptions in the reproduction process resulting fr ...
... So far, so good – but the expanded reproduction of capital and thus the reproduction of the capital-labour relation is no smooth and simple matter; on the contrary, it is a profoundly crisis-prone affair. Crises of accumulation can be defined as interruptions in the reproduction process resulting fr ...
The Sacred Canopy, Chap 1
... As long as these sociological dreams, so to speak, are confined to the individual's own consciousness and are not recognized by others as at least empirical possibilities, they will exist only as shadowlike phantasmata. By contrast, the institutions of the individual's society, however much he may d ...
... As long as these sociological dreams, so to speak, are confined to the individual's own consciousness and are not recognized by others as at least empirical possibilities, they will exist only as shadowlike phantasmata. By contrast, the institutions of the individual's society, however much he may d ...
Course Essential Questions
... 3-4 How does the Dreyfus affair exemplify European anti-Semitism and lead to the growth of Zionism. 4-1 How is Nationalism both a unifying and dividing force? 4-2 What are the four main causes of WWI? 4-3 How does the technology introduced in WWI change warfare? 5-1 How does the TOV affect interwar ...
... 3-4 How does the Dreyfus affair exemplify European anti-Semitism and lead to the growth of Zionism. 4-1 How is Nationalism both a unifying and dividing force? 4-2 What are the four main causes of WWI? 4-3 How does the technology introduced in WWI change warfare? 5-1 How does the TOV affect interwar ...
Hoffenberg.Hawaii.Comparative.Fall2015
... what scholars often call “The Great Transformation.” In a sense, this course traces the history of capitalism and of its compelling alternatives. Readings, lectures and assignments consider particular nations, or societies, including, but not limited to, Great Britain, sub-Saharan Africa, China, Jap ...
... what scholars often call “The Great Transformation.” In a sense, this course traces the history of capitalism and of its compelling alternatives. Readings, lectures and assignments consider particular nations, or societies, including, but not limited to, Great Britain, sub-Saharan Africa, China, Jap ...
Hypercapitalism: A political economy of informational
... roubles, and baht’ (Graham 1999: 499). Currency speculation alone ‘generates at least 100 times the entire value of global trade in tangible goods’ (1999: 499). But financial “commodities” have no intrinsic use-value whatsoever. They generate “value” only as long as they are continuously exchanged. ...
... roubles, and baht’ (Graham 1999: 499). Currency speculation alone ‘generates at least 100 times the entire value of global trade in tangible goods’ (1999: 499). But financial “commodities” have no intrinsic use-value whatsoever. They generate “value” only as long as they are continuously exchanged. ...
MA in Global Political Economy
... The course aims to familiarise students with some of the key conceptual and theoretical debates in global and international social theory, with special reference to the broad field of Global Political Economy which is understood here as the post-disciplinary re-integration of social science dealing ...
... The course aims to familiarise students with some of the key conceptual and theoretical debates in global and international social theory, with special reference to the broad field of Global Political Economy which is understood here as the post-disciplinary re-integration of social science dealing ...
“Third persons” and reproduction
... goods therefore merely refund to the capitalist class the amount of the wages they have received, their assignment to the extent of the variable capital. They cannot return a groat more than that (…) and if they are in a position to save (…) they may even return less” (op. cit. 132). It can neither ...
... goods therefore merely refund to the capitalist class the amount of the wages they have received, their assignment to the extent of the variable capital. They cannot return a groat more than that (…) and if they are in a position to save (…) they may even return less” (op. cit. 132). It can neither ...
The Breath of the Possible
... recuperate anything short of absolute refusal. The Situationists portrayed myth’s affectivity as caught in the dead hands of the spectacle and yet also as the potent force at the centre of a new world. The spectacle and the situation were represented within their theory as two competing totalities t ...
... recuperate anything short of absolute refusal. The Situationists portrayed myth’s affectivity as caught in the dead hands of the spectacle and yet also as the potent force at the centre of a new world. The spectacle and the situation were represented within their theory as two competing totalities t ...
Intention, Immanence, and the Individual in Development Theory
... has [for example] house room sufficient for the higher activities of himself and his family, a yet further and almost unlimited increase is desired as a requisite for the exercise of many of the higher social activities.” (III.II.8 ) Finally, there are what Marshall calls 'wants in relation to activ ...
... has [for example] house room sufficient for the higher activities of himself and his family, a yet further and almost unlimited increase is desired as a requisite for the exercise of many of the higher social activities.” (III.II.8 ) Finally, there are what Marshall calls 'wants in relation to activ ...
The consumer is not necessarily a citizen
... citizens and live in a supportive and protective polity. Consistent with the views of Locke, they want the state to defend and provide them with a tranquil environment, so that their everyday routines can return to normal. Perhaps even more important is that government officials are imploring them t ...
... citizens and live in a supportive and protective polity. Consistent with the views of Locke, they want the state to defend and provide them with a tranquil environment, so that their everyday routines can return to normal. Perhaps even more important is that government officials are imploring them t ...