SOCWORK 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Noam Chomsky, Militarism, Proletariat
26 Nov 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
* critical literature review november 1st @ 5:00pm. A sufficiently powerful population becomes collectively aware of conditions it considers to be threatening to its well-being. Sets out to alter those conditions so as to reduce the perceived threat. Movie- noam chomsky: the fact of inequality has a harmful corrosive effect on democracy, privileged and powerful sectors have never liked democracy takes power away from. In a democracy, public opinion has an effect on policy. them: concentration of wealth yields concentration of power a vicious cycle, adam smith calls them the master of mankind . >> principle 1: clash b/w pressure for freedom/democracy and the powers that control it, james maddison felt that the us should be designed so that power is in the hands of the wealthy. Maddison believed these wealthy men had sympathy for others: system was set up to prevent democracy, aristotle proposed a welfare state to try and reduce inequality, 1960"s had significant democratization.
