SOCI 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Empowered, Sociological Inquiry, Social Fact
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Introduction to sociology chapter 1: the sociological perspective. Globalization economic well-being of the world, products labour being moved around. Why is it important to use your sociological imagination when studying issues such as suicide. What are the assumptions behind each of the contemporary theoretical perspectives. The film talks about mass consumption within society, and leisure. Everything that surrounds us within consumption we deals is mass produced. More money and profit lies in the slavery back in the 18th century. The way to control these slaves was to keep them frightened. Planters dream was to use his profits and buy estates in london england. J locke (1605) he was the doctrine of private property. - a philosopher, one of the first political philosopher. One 100hp engine (in 1800) killed 880 old jobs, and created 750 new jobs the mode was 226x the output. This shows how efficient the machines were generating more profit.