SOC 470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Toronto Purchase, Microsoft Powerpoint, Party City

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 470
• Professor: Cheryl Teelucksingh

Document Summary

The early development of toronto: colonial toronto (1650-1834) freeman reading, toronto: industrialization and growth (1851-1914) goheen reading, toronto and the world wars (1914 1945) The dates in the powerpoint that are bolded are the dates we need to know. Dates in the readings are there for context: don"t need to memorize. Repetitions are key indicators for important facts: sociology and the city (cont. , sociologists study hidden patterns of social relations such as, how people, groups, families and institutions relate to each other. Issues of inequality and advantage resulting from class, race/ethnicity and gender. The way we think about toronto is very much a selective history. There"s 2 types of colonialism: with indigenous ppl and europeans and how canada. It soon became a conflict between the indigenous and the europeans because the indigenous wanted to be in line with the french.