Invention of the Modern World (7): Caste, class and social mobility
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| Description: | The curious English social structure over the centuries - open yet hierarchical |
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| Created: | 2011-06-06 13:18 |
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| Collection: | Lectures: The Invention of the Modern World (Wang Gouwei Lectures, 2011) Alan Macfarlane |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Prof Alan Macfarlane |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | Invention; Modern; World; social class; hierarchy; |
| Abstract: |
The tendency of most societies is for wealth differences to turn into legal and ritual differences, what Tocqueville calls ‘caste’. England is the great exception. Its peculiar statuses of aristocrat, gentleman, yeoman, labourer were found nowhere else in the world. They were part of a hierarchical, class, society which developed from Anglo-Saxon times. Meanwhile all other Eurasian societies moved towards ‘caste’. This hierarchy-with-mobility is an essential basis for modernity. |
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