Sociology 2173A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Mass Society, Child Poverty, Computer-Mediated Communication

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2173A/B
• Professor: Leichelle Little

Document Summary

Classic laissez-faire liberalism: joanne naiman describes that liberalism is and always has been the defining ideology in the us. Its cornerstones are the three values on which the american. The rise of neoliberalism: fiscal austerity north american government tackled deficit-reduction by cutting down budgets and staff, slashing program spending and downloading many responsibilities to lower levels of government. Believe that a second prong to this initiative would be to raise taxes. The result was not merely the unraveling of the social safety net, but the erosion of public institutions (healthcare, education) and physical infrastructure: decentralizations the us has always been more decentralized than canada. A wide range of services and enterprises formerly owned an/or offered by the government are either sold or contracted out to private sector operators. Development between them drove the chain of events that lead to mass society secularization, progress, the industrial revolution, and the rise of the middle-class.