SOC367H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Impermanence, Georg Simmel, Urban Sociology
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Random in-class writing assignment (practice for how this will go) Probably next week (next week is the fall break) If something happened in the context of your family, but not to you personally, you can include it. Contextualize your hunches and that people have asserted. How do people make sense of their lives when they are relocated transnationally. What do they feel has been hoisted upon them and what do they take responsibility for. Thinking about the question of a double existence (that your identity is split in some key ways) There was more mobility amongst people than ever before (possible motivations) Having one foot in your past and one foot in your present affects people psychologically. Founded urban sociology (study big studies and how people move to them and exist within them) Tried to theorize the existence of the newcomer (the thoughts)
