SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Neoliberalism, Civil Rights Movements

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

Mass consumption: tv cars and suburbia, pop culture as big business. The desire for more freedom: high education and internal tourism. Social justice: civil rights movements, anti-war movements, gay rights movements. What is a social problem : wright mills distinguished between personal troubles and public issues. Personal troubles: are things that affect individuals and their immediate surroundings. Public issues: have an impact on large numbers of people and are matters of public debate. Social problem defined: sociologists consider a social problem to be an alleged situation that is incompatible with the values of a significant number of people who agree that action is needed to alter the situation. Time and space: compression of the world (robertson 1992:8) Evolution in transportation the linking of technology to economic change. Three things: rise of the nation state, rise of transnational entities, pax americana. Previously failed attempt to embrace all of humanity.