SOC 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Working Parent, Microstructure, Harriet Martineau
19 Jan 2015
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The practice of sociology: policy research, analysis, and evaluation. Introduced by c. wright mills: place your own personal experiences into the broader social context. How are the urban centres structured: socioeconomic status, gender identity, sexuality, racialization. Social conditions facilitating the development of sociology (ritzer, 2000) Industrial revolution (rise of capitalism: political revolutions, rise of socialism, urbanization, declining significance of religion and the growth of science. Political revolutions: french revolution, distribution of power is questioned, social order disrupted. Industrial revolution (1700-1850: emergence of a market economy, machines and factories, space-intensive and labour-intensive activity, development of an unemployed class, emergence of a complex class system (capitalism) Rise of socialism: response to capitalism, economic system in which raw materials and the means of production are. 01/09/2015 collectively owned: state provides workers with all necessities, an attempt to address the needs of the majority, an economic, political and social ideal, organized labour emerged.
