SOC313H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ku Klux Klan, Randall Collins, Emily Dickinson
Document Summary
How major or minor historical events may have had long lasting effects. Ashes denotes that fire was- respect the greyest pile(cid:499: emily dickinson complete poems- 1924. If we want understand the world today, we must trace it into the past. Critical junctures in the course of world history. If relatively minor events had unfolded differently during these turning points, the course of world history would have been dramatically altered. Collins reading - hard to be able to trace things back to one event: not saying individuals can"t have an impact, estimated that the impact will last about 50 years. Turning points can be influential and path dependent for relatively small events or details of large historical trends. Would there still be the holocaust, would there be auschwitz, or were these the result of. People choices in the present are limited/restricted by events that have occurred in the past. Dominoes, when one domino tips it starts a chain reaction.
