SOCI 3630 Lecture Notes - Dharma, Intersectionality, Neoliberalism
30 Jan 2014
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The american dream: success or failure rests solely with the individual: blaming the victim assigning individuals more or less complete responsibility for events or circumstances that have broader social causes, consumerism is a term used to describe the effects of equating personal happiness with purchasing material possessions and consumption, it is often associated with criticisms of consumption starting with karl marx, karl marx calls capitalistic consumption commodity fetishism, echo consumers canadians under the age of twenty the echo generation, as they"re often called make up a quarter (26%) of the country"s population, neo liberal knowledge based economy; the raw material or basic commodity of this society is knowledge/information, knowledge based economy only the marketplace should determine which goods and services are produced and how they are generated; there are no public goods. , the digital divide has emerged as a public policy issue in canada.
