SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Anomie, Jared Diamond, Industrial Revolution

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: Thomas E Macias

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Chicano movement in the us: borrows iconography from the mexican revolution. Also inspired by the actions of the civil rights and black power movements. Short of a revolution, many reforms are implemented during this period. Mexican americans are selectively integrated by economic class. Globalization has made economic advances more difficult. Mainstream acceptance of latino identity can mask social class disparities. Immigration political concern: obama administration flow of immigrants is at net zero, currently, low immigration from mexico. Future of american mestizaje in the united states. Depends on: the size of the mestizo population in the us largely tied to the mexican economic situation, political stability largely tied to the domestic economic situation, relative inequality. Cultural weber: protestantism was the cultural basis of capitalism, shift in culture that made it acceptable to accumulate wealth. It"s a sig(cid:374) (cid:894)fro(cid:373) god(cid:895) that you (cid:449)ere chosen and are going to.