SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Industrial Revolution, Common Sense Revolution, Oligarchy
1 Dec 2013
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Ideology & history: ways of seeing, defining ideology, the left/right ideological spectrum, the liberal debate, conservative revival, strands of socialism, mythistory, columbus & the war against the indians (mcneill, zinn & rasky) The capacity of our environment to provide space, food and energy is all limited. Humans strive in less than 17% of the earth"s surface. This fact is about the core of our problems. 0-1500 a. d. : the population stayed roughly the same. By slowing the population growth & resources we can preserve the earth. Around 1830: our population reached 1 billion people. The industrial revolution is the time when mother earth"s heart starts to race. He is one of the 3 most important sociologists in america. He wrote a book called the end of ideology . Usa vs. ussr (they were rivals in the ww2 but become enemies after this) The soviets claimed to have discovered how society and history works.
