SOC101Y1 Lecture : SOC304H1-Lec 2
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Family genealogies: your answers for this project will be graded on the degree to which your account of your family"s occupational genealogy incorporates sociological concepts, especially concepts from this course. You will collect information by speaking with family members, particularly the older ones. Other potential sources of data are as follows. Sometimes perhaps by inborn talent at mathematics, music, etc. Human capital: human capital is what makes one person more productive than another. Adam smith on individual abilities and their aggregation: the acquired and useful abilities of all the inhabitants or members of the society. The acquisition of such talents, by the maintenance of the acquirer during his education, study, or apprenticeship, always costs a real expense, which is a capital fixed and realized, as it were, in his person. Those talents, as they make a part of his fortune, so do they likewise that of the society to which he belongs.
