SOSC 1800 Lecture : Sociological Imagination and Political Economy Lecture Notes
11 Jun 2013
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Globalization is an important concept, wants us to relate issues elsewhere to issues here locally. Thinking of children in general as one group. Understand it as an instrument or a tool. *use these concepts when writing papers, on tests* You, the individual, the private person whatever is happening to you is a private problem. **use these social institutions in papers and tests*: maybe these social institutions. 3 key issues with political economy: 1) materialism how much money you have = material condition, 2) dialectic society is not stable, constantly changing = contradiction within the system. Apply to children: what comes to mind when we say children innocent, not yet developed contradiction: child labor, child pornography, child abuse, rebellion. Value education, contradiction = it"s expensive, if it"s so valued, why is it so expensive: 3) historical we cannot speak of history, we must speak of a historically specific period.
