What is it about?
A historical study of the transition from feudal to capitalist inequality structures.
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Why is it important?
The focus of this article is the change in forms of social control during the transition from feudalism to capitalism. While the former maintained itself primarily by coercion and the creation and dissemination of legitimating beliefs, industrlaiization ushered in new form of social control which took advantage of already existing conditions and lower class behaviours which favoured capitalist interests and stabilized new forms of inequality.
Perspectives
The main contribution of this article is the distinction between interventive control and of complementary conditions in the consolidation of structures of social inequality. This work expands ideas in my earlier work on power and on understanding how inequality structtures endure over time.
Professor Bernd Baldus
University of Toronto
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This page is a summary of: Social Control in Capitalist Societies: An Examination of the "Problem of Order" in Liberal Democracies, The Canadian Journal of Sociology, January 1977, JSTOR,
DOI: 10.2307/3340492.
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