SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mass Incarceration, Militarism, International Inequality
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C w mills: men often feel that their private lives are a series of traps yet they don"t or can"t define the troubles they endue in terms of the societies in which they live. Understanding the complex world in which we live. To formulate any problem requires that we state the values involved . Freedom is not merely the opportunity to choose between given alternatives, it"s the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them, to choose the choices. Power each individual has to cooperate or not to cooperate. Can start very very small, usually started by people who are unprotected. A response to social and economic crisis. Is a social relationship: the few occupy a more advantageous position than the many racial/economic divide widening in us. Urbanization and the spread of slums (the city) Environmental threats to human and habitat sustainability. Questions about our basic way of life. Community in chester, pa: greenpeace; meatrix, commons pioneers,
