SOC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Neoliberalism, Post-Fordism, Corporate Welfare
6 Nov 2017
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Explain: metropolitan deconcentration, disinvestment and redlining, globalization and deindustrialization. Explain: gentrification, slumlording, warehousing, spatial apartheid, the jobs/housing mismatch, the rent squeeze. Describe how the decriminalization of drug use has been implemented as an alternative solution to the drug problem in certain countries. Explain as thoroughly as you can the statement, poverty is not randomly distributed geographically; it tends to cluster in certain places. write a short essay on this. Discuss the different theories used to explain what causes poverty. Explain the transition of the u. s. economy from one based on manufacturing to one based on information/knowledge and services. Explain taylorization, fordism, post-fordism, deindustrialization, neoliberalism, contingent workers, flexibility, the great recession. What are some of the problems with measuring (a) poverty, and (b) unemployment in the. Explain in detail the structural transformation of the economy and its impact on american workers. Discuss the causes and the consequences of the great recession.
