SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Neoliberalism, Nationstates, Economic Globalization

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

What is a social problem: wright mills distinguished between personal troubles and public issues. Personal troubles: are things that affect individuals and their immediate surroundings. Public issues: have an impact on large numbers of people and are matters of public debate. Sociologists consider a social problem to be an alleged situation that is incompatible with the values of a significant number of people who agree that action is needed to alter the situation. Time and space: compression of the world (robertson) Evolution in transportation the linking of technology to economic change. Previously failed attempts to embrace all of humanity. The divide between pre-modern and modern societies. Shift towards industrialism and emphasis upon predictability. A social process in which the constraints of geography on economic, political, social and cultural arrangements recede, in which people become increasingly aware that they are receding and in which people act accordingly. (waters).