SOCI 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Daily Sketch, Classical Liberalism, Macrosociology
6 Nov 2017
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Canadian society and social stratification: the vertical mosaic. !1: porter is taking the ideal of liberalism and then mapping it on how canada actually looks empirically and calls out the problem, weber: people rise up into these positions of social power by three hierarchical triangles. Hierarchically ordered/structured, higher end has a lot of impact on others. Subjective because different societies hold positions higher than others: (3) party: who is at the top of political parties, elites are pm; legislative (parliament who passes laws), executive, judicial (supreme court) Lecture notes - the vertical mosaic: 50 years later: john porter. Father abandons family and leaves for england in 1937. Porter"s mother takes the children to london. Porter can"t complete high school and works. Work at a london newspaper, the daily sketch. When war breaks out in 1939, porter enlists, and is recruited into intelligence. In 1946, porter takes economics at lse.
