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Soc Notes
20, 2010
Intro. Sociology
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-Asking questions about why things are the way they are
Intro. Sociology
C.Wright Mills
-Bureaucratic forms
> Ex: Student loan forms
-We can start with our own lives and develop a big picture of
society
October 4, 2010
Intro Sociology
-Reflection of a social issue can be seen through personal
problems
Where Does the Word Economics Come From?
-A Greek word for household management and a word used
to describe a person who did this
-Economics has now changed dramatically
-If things were like they use to be we would all know where a
food came from and everyone pulled their own weight
-Childhood as an invention
-There are huge amounts of money that move around due to
events that we deem as tragic/accidents
Does Our Economy Make Sense?
>Huge gaps between rich and poor and this gap gets bigger
>How much does the Irving’s contribute to New Brunswick
through taxes?
>Nothing
-The prospect of going to university keeps people quiet,
happy and working hard
Pg. 40 1st Columns
-It’s a lot of work to be poor
>Trying to sustain themselves and their family
(shopping around to save money)
-You don’t have extra time to try and fight against your
circumstances
-Non-labor market work is not counted because it can’t be
measured in dollars and cents
-It’s hard to conceptualize that we are now in such a place
that we are scared to stand up/fight/revolt
-Things to get changed through political activism
October 6, 2010
Intro Sociology
The Meatrix- Website research
>Develop analytical viewing guide of the website
-Write in narrative form
>Access through the class wiki or www.themeatrix.com
-Issues of industrialized food production
-Lost in the Super Market Article
-When you’re writing notes- think of someone you are writing
it too
How is Our Food Produced in Our Modern Society?
Article on Tomatoes
-NAFTA- North American Free Trade Agreement
-What process is involved in getting our food to our table?
>From Mexico to Canadian Grocery Stores
Pg.36
*Read the article and make a really good analytical reading
guide
-Scientific Evolution and Colonialism
-Cultures coming together and having different values for
the Earth
-Abstraction of land as something that can be sold rather
than the physical thing
>Separating the land from the Earth to put a price on it
>Money makes it abstract
>Treating the land as it being useless
Pg.41- Industrialization of Food and Transportation
-Political underlying dynamic of the tomato
-Early 1900’s use of trains now the use of a large trucking
system
>Shifting from a train system which was less
destructive on the environment to a trucking system which
was considerably more destructive on the environment.
-Our food is killing us and our environment and this is quite a
major problem
*Read the first half of the article seriously
-The Journey of the Corporate Tomato
-1st half goes up to page 33
-The next reading is linked to the wiki which is a link to an
article at the library
TEST
Chapter 1
What is sociology? – The Study of society, Sociologists will
examine public issues not personal issues. Ex) marital
issues, depression, financial, health. Public issues,
depression, financial, health. Public issues will effect a group
in society as a whole. A major player in the introduction to
sociology is C. Wright Mills.
Chapter 2