SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Industrial Society, Army Of The Republic Of Vietnam, Operation Rolling Thunder
![](https://s3.us-east-1.wasabisys.com/prealliance-avatars.oneclass.com/avatars/3452537/small/John-Gotti-1986.jpg?1637885008)
![SOCY 122 Full Course Notes](https://new-docs-thumbs.oneclass.com/doc_thumbnails/list_view/2159126-class-notes-ca-queens-socy-122-lecture5.jpg)
49
SOCY 122 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
49 documents
Document Summary
Socy 122 - introduction to sociology - lecture 11: 20th century"s long shadow. Labour theory of value and price replaced by marginal utility theory. Focus shifts to consumer as arbiter of value and price. Consumer demand a new focal point of economic theory. Social economics: intersection of economics and sociology critical to understanding dynamics of social life. Societies more open, meritocratic, consumer oriented and labour markets. Post-industrial society centred on information, computer technology, knowledge workers. Politics of reducing debt social programs; military-industrial complex. The new post-war family: father, stay-at-home mom, two to three children. The student movement: i am proud of what the sixties generation achieved, starting with destroying official segregation, the jim crow system perpetuated for a century after the civil war. The same rebel energy of the early sixties flowed into the anti-vietnam movement, the most significant resistance to war in american history .