Sociology 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Takeaway
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9 Apr 2018
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Second Sem Week 8 Environmental Sociology
Lecture Summary
● 3 ways to infer to the environment
1. Capitalism - future commodities (universal exchange value - money)
● Selling for a surplus
2. Enlightenment - humans are rational beings, nature is not rational
● Nature is chaotic and we try to control it
● Reason and science to understand how nature works
● Constrained - economy is based on the environment, we are not in
constraint anymore
3. Results - how the environment works and how we can change it (not always
negative)
● Humble - saw nature as a global force
○ E.g. melting of the ice caps
● Helping the environment - change the ways of living
○ E.g. colonize space - drill for fossil fuels doesn’t do well for the environment)
○ E.g. figure out renewable techniques
● Big sociological question: how do we actually make people care??
○ People deny that climate change is happening
○ Legal language - going against our rights
Reading Sociology Summaries
Chapter 54: Does a Place Like This Still Exist? Remaking Economic Identity in Post-Resource
Communities
● Production (farming, agriculture) to consumption (tourism)
● Some cities can make this change and some can’t - confusing to try and change cities that
actually can’t
● Contained places - not part of the global market, it’s own market
● Bella Coola - self sufficient city to make themselves unique, giving them purpose
● Port Hardy - ferry to the islands
● Takeaway- not victims of change, authors of what comes next
Chapter 59: ‘How Can You Decide about Us Without Us?’:
● )ithout a world government, we need to rely on multiple sites of governance that don’t
typically agree with each other)
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