Ekonomik

(İng. economic)

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The culture of agrarianate citied society can be characterized as a distinct type in contrast both to the pre-literate types of culture that preceded it and to the Modern technicalistic culture that has followed. In contrast to precitied society —even to agricultural society before the rise of cities— it knew a high degree of social and cultural complexity: a complexity represented not only by the presence of cities (or, occasionally, some organizational equivalent to them), but by writing (or its equivalent for recording), and by all that these imply of possibilities for specialization and large-scale intermingling of differing groups, and for the lively multiplication and development of cumulative cultural traditions. Yet the pace of the seasons set by natural conditions imposed limits on the resources available for cultural elaboration, moreover, any economic or cultural development that did occur, above the level implied in the essentials of the symbiosis of town and land, remained precarious and subject to reversal —in contrast to the conditions of Modern times, of our Technical Age, when agriculture tends to become one 'industry' among others, rather than the primary source of wealth (at least on the level of the world economy as a whole).

I suggested that the values in question followed rather than preceded the economic transformations that were occurring.

the traditional liberal theoretical analysis of modernity broke modern life down into three spheres — the economic, the political, and the sociocultural. This was reflected in the creation of three separate social science disciplines dealing with the modern world: economics, concerned with the market; political science, concerned with the state; and sociology, concerned with everything else (sometimes called the civil society).