SOC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Grand Strategy, Male Privilege, Impression Management
6 Mar 2018
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Interactions with strangers: definitions, trust and public spaces, gentrification and the future of urban spaces, south park, education, video - anthony bourdain"s parts unknown: detroit. Outline for today: simmel - someone who is near and distant at the same time, comes today, stays tomorrow, park the marginal man/marginal person, someone who lives in two worlds two cultures etc. The wandering jew people without a homeland: schultz disconnected from organized group life, one who isn"t knowledgeable about the cultural patterns of the group. The sociology of the stranger - theory: biographical simply people we haven"t met yet, cultural occupy different symbolic worlds from ourselves, a sense of caution takes hold due to perceived differences. Doubt and trust: race and crime stats, we don"t need to spend too much time on the numbers sadly this is a very well documented issue in the us. 700% between 1975 and 2005 the u. s. has more prisoners than china.
