SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cyberstalking, Negative Feedback, Viral Marketing
15 Feb 2018
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Integration and resettlement: economic, cultural, and social processes, mutual adaptation of newcomer and host society, beyond assimilation (you will become like them) Challenges: cultural dissonance, ethnic enclaves, segmented assimilation. Immigration demographics: philippines, china, india largest group of newcomers, africa immigrant population increasing. Classes of immigrants: family 25, refugee 12, economic 60% (coming in with lots of money, creating jobs, spending money they bring in more jobs than they take out) http://www. statcan. gc. ca/daily-quotidien/171025/dq171025b-eng. htm. Durkheim: labour shortages: over-qualified and underemployed, result: cultural dissonance. Marx: reserve army of labour: ethnic enclaves: segregation, segmented assimilation: underclass. Media as ideological: reproduces dominant beliefs: corporate structure, advertising revenue, experts to legitimate news; politicians, police, business, negative feedback shapes story selection: bleed and lead, anti-communist/pro-market framing. Corporate structure of media: common sense tactics (expert claims making, saturation of images and messages) profit making and news making (advertiser revenue: readership/clicks, editorial control)
