R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: North American Free Trade Agreement, Urban Sprawl, Modernization Theory

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC355
• Professor: John Parkins

Document Summary

Commentator on topics around problems of capitalism: myth of who we are as a nation. Idea that we have deep mythology, deep sense of who we are, idea that there really are no ecological limits- this was a vast region that could be used for spare parts (bottomless pit). Seemed like resources were limitless at beginning of canada: now stocks decimated (e. g. cod). Hunting, gathering, sales of commodity/ own labour for wages, range of things that highlights the resilience of these early farm families: off-farm work (co-integration, varied and flexible rural economy, resilient! Impact of globalization on rural places: changing economic conditions could potentially create opportunities but could also wipe them off the map, challenges, competition (global competition in agriculture/ forestry challenges. Closure of a lot of older pulp mills because of pulp mills from other parts of the world coming online- outcompeting canadian industries)