SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: San Luis Obispo, California, Rockefeller Foundation, Natural Disaster

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: jones

Document Summary

Recitation (marx"s alienation piece from last week) Alienation to make something foreign or other. Greater productivity devalued worker (the more you make as a worker, the less you mean) Works for increase in average productivity (not individual) As workers produce more, there is a greater destruction of environment. From an employers perspective, hierarchy must exist for profit and productivity. Certain individuals have the power to tweak/manage political events. Unknown oil spill at san luis obispo, california. Catastrophe in the making: the engineering of katrina - william freudenburg. No such thing as a natural disaster . Plant oysters in dirty areas, which will cluster and clean the area to create an archipelago. Rebuild by design rockefeller foundation, nyu, us, hud. Warming in some places and cooling in others. Storms in some places, none in others. Erosion of wealth = increase in poverty. Compared to frog and boiling water story: Humans adjust to gradual changes in climate until very end (when/if it.