SOC 2080 Lecture 1: SOC 2080 - LECTURE 1

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2080
• Professor: Anthony Winson

Document Summary

The midterm is short answer questions and short essays no multiple choice. Uot was really important for the social science roots in canada. The canadian political economy and in uence on candian sociology - c. b. Macpherson on prairie populism, fowke on wheat economy, wallace clements. The vertical mosaic is the most important ** Pioneered by william friesland and colleagues in california. First commodity study - ice burg lettuce production, processing distribution (manufacturing green gold) Sydney mintz - sugar (sweetness and power) - slavery/africans. Mclaughlins canadian study of beef (kill and chill) They are comprehensive, in depth, and gives a good picture of a single commodity. Understanding of importance of labour relation in agriculture commodity production, technology, role of gov in social transformation of prod. Lacks a holistic picture of the wider food economy. What it looks like - evolving power relationships among various social sectors constituting the complex such as production, consumption, distribution.