SOCI 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Birth Weight, Global Justice Movement, Mass Media
1 Feb 2017
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Globalization: food, hunger and the global justice movement. Mass media teaches that hunger in developing countries is the result of short-term emergencies such as famine. However, most hunger is not caused by famine but is dramatic and spectacular for the media to portray to western countries. Why: famine is sensationalistic, not proportional to importance, portrays government in global south as bad . By portraying other governments as bad we are able to create the good vs. evil: they are bad to their people, so we help them. The last famine: occurred in china between 1958-61. Collective farms rather then single peasant farms were believed to increase the food and raw material supply to the urban population. Famine and rare and when faced has been minimized very effectively in the past years. Hunger however is common and widespread: this is why sociologists refer to it as endemic which is defined as the daily insufficiency of food.
