SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Santa Barbara City College, Mark Granovetter, Economic Liberalization
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Networking with people who know about a job. Weak ties refers to people apart of our social networks that we don"t realize are. Strong ties can be essential in the success of job searches. Functions: production, distribution, consumption (of what we need and want) Unlikely that one country is pure example of one political-economic ideology. Most economies today have some aspects of capitalism and socialism. Technology: replacement of typical working class jobs. Changing social contract: debate over the role of government in the social safety. Workers having little power over their job. Malthus (1798): population growth will exceed earth"s food supply. New inventions such as birth control and efficient farming. Is happening in places that are less developed and don"t have access to. Not as important to have a large family. Growth leveled to the point of declining. Health care is pretty good, but better than developed countries.
