SOC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Social Forces, Neoliberalism, Living Wage
12 May 2016
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Malnutrition, obesity, food safety, social justice, and environmental issues are everyday concerns effecting us all. Subsidies to the farmers, subsidies to support current transportation systems, hidden costs of global warming, hidden costs of diet related diseases, crime, violence, wars, refugees. Sen: developing human capabilities and appropriate functioning are crucial ethical concerns. Rawls: a coherent political system cannot be possible without a social contract. Challenges of global governance where more and more people feel alienated from the political process or lose their trust to main social institutions, weakening social solidarity, the bond that ties people to each other in modern society. Problems of the food system reflect broader systemic problems of our society. Crisis of legitimacy present itself in the form of a number of societal tendencies: Fear: we are bombarded by messages that make us afraid of almost everything and everybody. Distrust: we do not trust most of the major institutions and agencies in our society.
