SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Consumerism, Parental Leave, Proletariat

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Jennifer Flad

Document Summary

The u. s. economy: from industrialization to deindustrialization industrial revolution: economy: social system involved in the production, consumption, and distribution of goods and services. Industrial revolution: introduced the factory system of production. Instead of making products alone at one or in small groups in workshops, large numbers of workers were brought together in factories. Deindustrialization in the united states: deindustrialization: involves the decline of manufacturing as well as a corresponding increase in various types of series, like detroit, factors in deindustrialization, 1. Aging technology in many american industries; made them vulnerable to foreign competitors, which were often building new, state-of-the-art factories / and the rise of automation, which reduced the need for many blue-color workers: 2. Globalization, brought with it industrial competition from low-wage workers in less developed countries; esp. true in the emergence of china as an industrial power: 3.