SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: C. Wright Mills, Canadian Dollar, Food Security
11 Oct 2016
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Substances ingested to sustain humans (provide energy + maintain life) When, what, how, with whom we eat reflects the complexity of wide cultural arrangement (family gathering) However, since they are designed not to earn corn. It is bad: we live in an environment that does not support long term sustainability because people are looking at profitability, value of canadian dollar goes down but food goes up. To preserve their life and form living forms necessarily destroy life and forms . Beautified by graceful deed and tactful speech. Its violence and destructive nature is hidden by cultural codes (manners) Sociology systematic study of human society and social interaction (patterns) Common sense is not systematic it is based on individual experience (mistaken interpretations) Society social grouping that shares the same characteristics in political authority and cultural expectations. Structure vs. agency: structure pre-existing arrangements that influence our behavior, agency choices individuals make.
