SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Allan Bloom, Baby Boomers, Marshall Mcluhan

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

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Socy122: introduction to sociology - lecture 1:the millennials. Echo boom, boomlet, nintendo generation, nexters, digital generation, net generation. Stocks of everyday knowledge knowledge we have acquired through experience and cultural norms in our society. Hot medium newspaper, media that is singular. Molten-ice media molten hot in the sense that digital information is blended together, ice in the sense that we can use digital technology to recreate the image being portrayed. (glee and new. The beloit mindset list generation accustomed to instant access will need to acquire the patience of scholarship. They will discover how to research information in books and journals and not just on-line. Allan bloom, the closing of the american mind. What each generation is can be best discovered in its relation of the permanent concerns of mankind. This in turn can be best discovered in each generation"s tastes, amusements and especially angers. A liberal education helps students pose the question who am i".