SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Sustainability, Genetically Modified Organism, Market Economy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 808
• Professor: Donna Appaoo

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Defines systems as a group of elements organized such that each element is in some way independent with every other: hay element, interdependent web production, processing, distributing, consumption, and disposal of food (cid:224) system can be, very local self provisioning of small, isolated groups, huge global corporate food system. Interdependent web of corporate controlled activities at the global scale: includes production, processing, distributing, consumption, and disposal of food. Patel stuffed and starved global corporate food system as battlefield. Impossible to think about such food system without attending to the corporations that have controlled it for centuries. They crack the supply chain like a whip. Drive for control of the food system verified by goodall. Claims that 10 multinational corporations control over half the worlds food supply. Social construction of markets karl polanyi"s the great transformation (cid:222) (cid:222) (cid:222) (cid:222) (cid:222) market meeting place for the purpose of barter or buying and selling.