SOCI 1127 Lecture Notes - Greenhouse Gas, Seabus, French Revolution
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Draws on both arts (creativity, intuition) and sciences (logic, system analysis) Bridge between individual and society, biography and history. Micro small group/community (family) vs macro broad element that shape our individual (economy) Central question: who wins and who loses? (given the situation that exists) Canada and chinese immigrants - chinese won b/c start of new life, canada won b/c boost in economy. Cars- time, flexibility, efficiency, poor transit operation vs bus- environmental reasons, cost, don"t have car. Public- environmental effects and costs, green house gasses, increase in asthma. Description (by a doctor) leads to prescription (of medicine) Huge increase in productivity because of new technology. How the parts of society contribute to the whole. What shapes us - economy, culture,namely, law, education, politics,religion. Class based on ownership/control of means of production. Eg in capitalism, two main classes: bourgeois(capitalists, factory owners) and proletariat (factory workers) Interested in patterns of behavior in everyday interaction. Ethnography: method based on close observation, detailed writing.
