SSH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Mobility

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 100
• Professor: Ahmed Ali Ilmi

Document Summary

Ssh 100 lecture 4 reading: an interesting idea, in theory. Theoretical thinking requires that we relentlessly hunt for actual causes of the phenomena we exercise, even if we think we already know the answer. Theory and thinking in the humanities and social sciences. Our academics help us to study social issues. Theory involves processes of continued reflecting and thinking. When arriving at the question, we being to think it through. There are norms and values based on human understanding. Is anchored on the idea that social structures in any given society deters people from acting out on their narrow self interest. Equity vs equality, our society attempts equality but it should strive for equity. Power and privilege grant access to more resources. Marx- factors, metabolic rift, wanted social change (metabolic rift) notion that metabolic reactions occur that build organic matter in soil, fix the soil that has been industrialized by cities.