SOC 103 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills, Courtly Love
5 Dec 2014
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Keynesian economics: uses taxes to control inflation, spend to stimulate growth, net effect: high government intervention in societal development and substantial wealth distribution. Neoliberal economics: reduce taxes to stimulate growth, reduced spending to control debt, manipulate interest rates to control inflation, net effect: reduced government intervention in social development and low wealth redistribution. Concerns about globalization: trade agreements negotiated behind closed doors, without democratic accountability, trade agreements set limits on national sovereignty in the name of economic liberalization, trade agreements and financial institutions effectively constitute a new, global, level of governance. Includes state and economy by not civil society. Types of sociology (burawoy: professional, policy, public, critical. Performativity & reflexivity: performative: claims become true by being assertive, e. g. The exam beings now : reflexivity: happens when an action feeds back into the situation that produces it, e. g. fashion journalism, both cast doubt on the ability of any social science to be fully objective.
