SOC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Militarism, Permanent War Economy, American Exceptionalism
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Sociology 1 - lecture 6 october 18 war & peace. Why all this activity and why can a lot of us can act like it doesn"t matter: 60+ years at war. Always continuous: biggest military spender, largest military supply provider. Focus of lecture: how is this taken for granted to our everyday life: people just go in with their lives acting like this isn"t going on. Eisenhower: god help whoever sits at this desk next if they don"t know as much about the military as i do . Military industrial complex term invented by eisenhower. How would we ever have peace if we are depending on war? . Military industrial complex: eisenhower"s two dangers, independent military authority a threat to democracy, permanent war economy creates a dependence on war as our way of life. Johnson"s major claim: the main claim the us has become a military empire.
