SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Social Democracy, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Economic Globalization
2 Jul 2016
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Canadian symbols: the blue hat peace keeprs, mountie and maple leaf. American slogan: life, liberty and pursuit of happiness . What is a social problem: wright mills distinguished between personal troubles and public issues. Are things that affect individuals and their immediate surroundings. Have an impact on large numbers of people and are matters of public debate. Sociologist"s 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 1992: 8) Evolution in transportation the linking of technology to economic change. You can get fish from cape breton in 24 hours. This started after ww1 and then again after ww2, you see the creation of the un. Pax is latin for peace, we"ve had several paxs (pax britania)
