SOCI 1002H Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Environmentalism, Occupy Movement, Keystone Pipeline

• School: Trent University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1002H
• Professor: G.Balfour

Document Summary

Change is linked to objecive and subjecive elements: material condiions of class structure. Poverty, global corporate power: human acion: how we respond to condiions. What makes change happen: collecive not individual acion. Private trouble to public issues: means to change via social power. Change is coninuous but at variable rates, an is driven by conlict not idealism. Change is only likely to occur in the right context: level of knowledge, moivaing condiions (economic collapse, discovery of hiv, school shooings) Moivaing condiions: growing poliical and economic instability. Rise of liberalism: have we reached the limits of growth. Environmental impact of growth: risks of deep integraion with the u. s. Squaters in otawa: homelessness as objecive and subjecive. Powerless and vulnerable: can be transformed into poliical/empowered category. Squaing as jusiied or criminal: group of squaters (homeless people and university students) charged with break and enter.