SOCIOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Consumerism, C. Wright Mills, Nuclear Family
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People"s behavior (cid:667)feelings/emotions(cid:668: teaches us to look beyond/beneath surface of people"s surface, patterns, question the natural, makes visible invisible, converts us into detectives to investigate social patterns, how society function. How we interact i: we don"t think consciously about the social world (cid:571). Star athletes: what social factors explain mass murders, majority are forgiven, male & female treated differently, privileged, they are visible i. Coffee: coffee is in relation with colonialism, coffee came from middle east, britain colonized middle east. Ramiro expresses the invisible in david"s art by exposing the labor behind it. American dream originally meant a better life and now it means being successful in relating to money. Those born in january were chosen for hockey. Depending on birthday will decide who will make it and get more practice/advantage. Industrialization, urbanization a. (cid:570)9th century b: revolution brought ideas such as rights you are born with, colonialism i.
