SOSC 1000 Lecture : Lecture 1

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1000
• Professor: Terry Conlin

Document Summary

Thursday 3-4: administrative matters, books, outline, enrollment/ wait list, university 101, ormsby ontario, philip slayton, grades & services, world population, the global village & holmberg"s mistake. Harold adam innis"s most famous student was marshall mcluhan (he coined the term the global village ) Challenging orthodoxy is going to be a recurring theme in this course. There is no such thing as society, there are only markets- mrs. thatcher (president of england?) Democracy will be an ongoing theme: the world of work, inequality, the environment, the position of women in past present future. 5 major early disciplinary strands of social science: anthropology, sociology, psychology, economics, political science.