SOCY 326 Lecture : SOCY 326 - Weeks 1, 2 & 3

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 326
• Professor: Annette Burfoot

Document Summary

Picture of sweatshop working women having thrown themselves to their death from sweatshop window. How we deal with things begins to change. The bodies of women who hurled themselves to their death to escape fire when locked in their new york sweat shops points to this need. Politics what s at stake? sociology concerned with recognizing, accounting for and representing this thing called society in large scale terms (e. g. , the scope and macro social impact of industrialization). Macro-level change, and responses with said change. Propaganda a way of selling an idea to a large amount of people in a way that wasn t obvious. Marx argues that social change was defined politically and economically and should occur at a second world war revolutionary, widespread level. Mid-20th century concept of power, comes from the phenomenologists (philosophy based on experience of the self); the process of viewing the world as an individual is important.