Sociology 3333F/G Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Wwe Backlash, Reading Company, Racism
12 Oct 2018
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Sociology 3333F/G
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
3333F – September 6, 2018
Introduction to the Course
No required readings
Music Video: Aretha Frakli Chage Gonna Coe
- Hope that something better (new social society will come)
- …ee a log tie oig
- Poverty
- Tribute to Nelson Mandela
- How to make change
- Law and social policy relates to change
- We need to participate in making change
- Progressive change
o Sometimes change can take us back (i.e., marginalized communities)
- Chage is’t alays a positie thig
Musi Video: Miheal Jakso Heal the World
- Social differences
- Privilege
- War
- …ake it a etter plae for you ad e
- LOTS of children present in video amongst soldiers
- Attempting to employ hope and empowering children to make a change for their future
- How YOU can be an active citizen and make a better world
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3333F – September 11 & 13, 2018
Notes from Reading
Active Citizenship is the Best Defence against Abuse of Power
- Mai of apitalists is eethig fo ouseles ad othig fo aoe else.
- We should be focusing on corporate power rather than state power
- The uheked poe of a goup leads to ause i todas soiet
o Corporate power is an example of this
o Deepening of democracy helps
- Gloalizatio has haged
o Economic force has replaced military force
o Colonialism used armies to gain power
o Imperialism (came after colonialism) used economic exploitation
- Copoate gloalizatio
- Capitalism has created its own demise
o Ceated peoples gloalizatio
- Naoi Klei: No “pae, No Choie, No Jos
o Young generations reclaiming their freedom is this capitalist, privatized society
o Backlash caused by corporations increasing profit without creating more jobs
- Resistance is the first and most important step for social change
- Criminalization of the poor
- Whe goeet speds little o othig o soial assistance and more and more on the repressive
forces of the state – police, prisons, and military – poor people begin to see the government as the
pole athe tha the solutio. p. 1
- Change must come from the government
- Tobin Tax
- There is becoming an aversion to electoral politics and mass media
- I Caada, though e a hae aepted fisal oseatis, e at least still pioitize health ae,
education, and child poverty above tax cuts
- Trade deals only benefit the elite few
o Wrong framework for international economic relations because it imposes one economic and
cultural solution on everyone
- Noam Chomsky: If we want to fight for democracy, we have to take on the economic inequalities of
capitalism
- When democracy is working, abuse of power is less likely
- We eed to deepe ou ideas of deoa to atie itizeship
- Need to include citizenship participation at every level
Case Critical: Ch. 3
- Equity seekers: equity, inclusion, and democratic accountability seekers
o Advocating, organizing, demonstrating, and mobilizing public support for social justice
o Discovery and naming of carious sets of privilege
- Colonial Privilege
o Opeates o a take-for-gated leel i hih the ijustie is lagel oealed i the da-to-
day operations of social life
o Creates a sense of entitlement causing oblivion
o Beause this hast ee talked aout, little has ee doe to oat it
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Document Summary
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