SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - The Brady Bunch, Baby Boom, Jack Kevorkian
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Baby snatchers, child abuse: exaggerated threat to societal values. Canada: highest age-group murder rate babies younger than one year old. Aids (north america yes, parts of africa no) Need clear and timely evidence of degree of harm: may be unavailable, future oriented. Understand how life chances affected by broader social forces. Are you rich or born: biography (of individual) Set of people born at the same time. Experience similar things at the same age: especially teen years. Baby boom, baby bust, mtv generation, generation x, 20 something , know nothing , generation with pr problem i. e. antagonistic terms. 2 major differences between baby boom and gen x cohorts: time born history. Affects opportunities: size of the cohort (social structure) Generation x: family not binding times, economic outlook, politics, culture. September 10 , 2011 worldwide suicide prevention day. It has been a major them in philosophy and many other subjects. Dante"s inferno the woods of the suicides.
