SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ann Coulter, Counterintuitive, Only Crime

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Wilmoth

Document Summary

Soc 101 - week 1 - sociological themes and concepts. Received a phd in sociology from university of washington at seattle. Lived in the bay area, san diego, and milwaukee. Primary interest lies in the political economy. He will not subscribe to one ideology, but will not steer away from controversy. Writing a book, infrastructures of aggression, based on his dissertations. Goals for the class: students become more self-aware and self-taught. When two contradictory processes exist in the same reality. Social theorists (friedrich hegel) argue that all social life is paradoxical. Ex: getting a like from a distant friend on an instagram post and using it as self-affirmation. Is global society as a whole headed towards a technological paradise or. Ruppert committed suicide in recent years, partly due to the depression caused the pressure of civilization"s collapse. When a bear attacks, you don"t have to be faster than the faster runner.