SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Import Substitution Industrialization, The Sociological Imagination, Muckraker
3 Nov 2020
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If your parents are from a higher class, their network will help you stay in the upper class (through job opportunities, friends, etc) New information enters through bridge between networks. Bridge must be of an acquaintance nature. If bridge becomes strong, bridge becomes tie (i. e. establishing another networkj) Coercion to force 3rd world countries to do what they were needed to do. Poisons economies of these 3rd world countries. If you start from scratch, you can build different institutions (canada, us) Strongest predictor of economic well-being: where you"re born. Labor intensive sectors do not establish strong external connections. Treatment of fire hazard in la vs money poured into fire department in santa monica. Routine falls into box of normality, which disasters bring society out of. People figure it out; not necessarily chaos. View of police: must live inside box. Max weber (1864-1920) vs c. wright mills (1916-1962)
