SOC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ecotourism, Human Ecology, Neoliberalism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 300
• Professor: Cheryl Teelucksingh

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Question: do you think canada should be doing more to approach the climate change. Demonstrate the ability to integrate material from lecture and material. Additional analysis that goes beyond a summary. Max 3 pages references at the end to the text or lecture, no outside research. Take a position and use evidence and acknowledge the limitations of the position. Environmental view: socially constructed vs realist perspective: historical change in human societies. Life was more about leisure, worked about 2 hours a day. 90% of the time that humans have been alive on earth have been hunters and gatherers. Small groups had culture, roles, language, About 7000 years ago, shift to intensive agriculture using the same fields and more complex technology: agricultural revolution: shift from a people-in-nature to a controlling-nature worldview, industrial societies. Realized that exploiting nature and labor go hand in hand. Factories were mainly in cities new class of industrial wealth.