SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Outsourcing, Academic Advising, Creative Destruction
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Sociology program: quantitative data, qualitative data, making your own research. Learn how social actions and social process are patterned. Year 2: logic of research, critical thinking and writing, theoretical foundations of the discipline. Jobs and careers: in the fields of health or education, public policy analysis, social services or immigrant. Early 90s there was panic over jobs. Now its not as bad as the 90"s but problem still exist. As we move, we distribute income more equally, the level of inequality fall, but it increases within the nation. Wheel of fortune: depression generation vs. baby boomers reverse early experiences. Depression doesn"t need any explanation, - getting one new dress a year made by a mother. Biggest boom is passing on their money to the baby boomers. They started really well but their experiences has been reversed, started losing their jobs. It creates things but destructive at the same time. Technologies has taken away lots of middle class jobs.
