SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Industrial Society, Army Of The Republic Of Vietnam, Operation Rolling Thunder

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

Socy 122 - introduction to sociology - lecture 11: 20th century"s long shadow. Labour theory of value and price replaced by marginal utility theory. Focus shifts to consumer as arbiter of value and price. Consumer demand a new focal point of economic theory. Social economics: intersection of economics and sociology critical to understanding dynamics of social life. Societies more open, meritocratic, consumer oriented and labour markets. Post-industrial society centred on information, computer technology, knowledge workers. Politics of reducing debt social programs; military-industrial complex. The new post-war family: father, stay-at-home mom, two to three children. The student movement: i am proud of what the sixties generation achieved, starting with destroying official segregation, the jim crow system perpetuated for a century after the civil war. The same rebel energy of the early sixties flowed into the anti-vietnam movement, the most significant resistance to war in american history .