SOC 2309 : 19-06-13 class2.docx
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Exam 1: 1 hour: 15 multiple choices, 5 short answers and 2 long answer questions. Readings: key concepts, main conclusions, main thesis first 2 articles. In analyzing a social problem it is important to identify the group of pple for whom the behaviour is a problem. Or in alberta: sterilizing pple that they thought had bad genes (physically or mentally challenged) During wwii we interned italian and japanese and not german. Also while criminalizing opium they thought it would stop the asians from coming to canada after the railways were built but it didn"t work the day of shame for chinese is independence. Our society has acted inappropriately at times -- even though we have a very clean image of. Canadians and no one really talks about those times. The ability to see the relationship between an individual"s experiences and the larger society in which they are contextualized (c. wright mills)
