SOC232H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Risk Society, Full Employment, Invisible Hand
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Canadian culture: tim hotron"s is an icon of canadian national culture, canadian culture in relation to u. s, multi-culture as the culture, ford, messing things up, free healthcare. It"s a topsy turvy, shifty, liquid and risky time. Becks: world risk society: talks about everything being a big risky mess, first modernity, networks, solid stuff, territory and geography. Full employment, working even if not exactly getting paid that much. Undermining processes, globalization, individualization, gender-ization, underemployment and crisis as a result of all that building stuff. Build stuff, learn about stuff, go up. (pilgrim: second modernity, didn"t plan on that, but look what shitty stuff happened. Talks about multiplicity of modernity and risks. (tourist: risk: modern approach to force and control consequences of actions. It"s a lot harder to calculate the consequences of decisions: beck says we can"t really foresee risks that accurately. Industrialization and first modernization of the periphery: now make factories and exploit labor, talks about individualization not like individualism.
