SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Franz Boas, The Foundations, Black Pride

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 226
• Professor: Ryan Martin

Document Summary

Critiques of the post-war consensus and the american dream we focus on the new ideas about power in terms of class and race. The rise of the new middle-class in 1950"s american became a focus of critique in literature and critical sociology. The old middle class was doctors and such and now more and more the middle class are amagers and administrators and office workers. Mills was very against this work because the workers weren"t very in control and they were very much held to a standard. Consumers are held to the wants and needs of the capitalists. They create an idea in society about what should and shouldn"t be and how things should be and they make products in order to sell to that group. The mythology of the united states included a belief that it was classless, that wealth could be achieved by anyone through hard work, and that constant economic growth was inherently beneficial.