Problem
Feudalism
Other Names:
Feudal social order Nature:
This economic and political system of land tenure, whereby the landowner lets out land in return for service from his tenants or peasants, may arise out of dispossessing indigenous populations, and results in the pauperization and effective slavery of the latter. Where feudalism remains from the traditional social structure, development takes place at the expense of the peasants who may be used as cheap or free labour in factories and mines instead of on the land. Background:
1. The system of political organization prevailing in Europe from the 9th to about the 15th centuries having as its basis the relation of lord to vassal with all land held in fee and as chief characteristics homage, the service of tenants under arms and in court, wardship, and forfeiture; 2: any of various political or social systems similar to medieval feudalism (Websters Dictionary). Incidence:
Feudalism still exists in developing non-Communist countries, especially in Latin America and Asia. Broader Problems:
Social inequalitySocial underdevelopment Narrower Problems:
Unjust customary sexual rights Related Problems:
Repressive new world orderForced labourExploitation in employment Values:
OrderDisorderUnsociable References:
Critchley, John: FeudalismLyon, Bryce D: From Fief to Indenture: the transition from feudal to non-feudal contract in Western EuropeDuby, Georges; Goldhammer, Arthur and Bisson, Thomas N: The Three Orders: feudal society imagined Subject(s):
Society → Society Society → Social
Commerce → Land ownership
Metapolitics → Political theories
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
26.06.2020 – 07:32 CEST