SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Social Inequality, Guided Reading, Dialectic
31 Jan 2017
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Guided reading questions reader: understanding society (chapters 1, 2 3, 5, 6) textbook: How societies work (chapters 1, 2, 3, 5, 6) Distal is distant power, primal power is the closer power or institutional, it can work simontanously where you are located structurally (different at home and in workforce) (example: skylight tours) Marx capitalist society, the cycle of the market place is boom and bust and the social problems that come from that is that it leads to a culture of competition, exploitation and lead to a toxic social environment. The dialectic is that everything is related and change is constant, social change goes from qualativie to quanatative, change unity and struggle all go together. They use this concept by change does not happen through the active individual, it happens through the collective, it is more powerful within groups. Chapter 2: is human behaviour the result of our biology.
