SOCIOL 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Illegal Drug Trade, Mcdonaldization, Robert Venturi

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1Z03
• Professor: sandra colavecchia

Document Summary

Norms: generally accepted ways of doing things. Culture: is a complex collection of values, beliefs, behaviours, and material objects shared by a group passed on from one generation to the next. Five defining features: culture is learned, culture is shared, culture is transmitted, culture is cumulative, culture is human. Inspired by max weber"s idea of rationalization. Control: workers are controlled and customers do tasks that people once did (self checkout) Its dehumanizing as it is destructive on humans health. Acts as a drug pusher on children. Takes irrational ideas and makes them look like good ideas. Postmodernism has impacted sociology, other academic disciplines, music, architecture, art, and literature. There is no singular theory or truth . Knowledge and truth is situation-specific, fluid, and contested. Truth is shaped and reshaped through discourse. Truth often reflects power relations as those with power can shape and reshape discourse. Postmodernist theory challenges traditional theories premised on a singular.