SOC 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cultural Globalization, Profit Motive, Economic Globalization
12 Nov 2016
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Today"s commons include: public spaces, shared language and culture, informal community support systems. Tncs grew in size and dominance (based in us, germany and japan) Greater role of gov in well-being and security of citizens: provides services at a lower cost because of large size and its lack of a profit motive, a universal system maximizes fairness. Concern about expansion and consolidation of the socialist world. Needed to prove "capitalist" system to be better an to legitimize it. Workers were putting pressure on government to help them. Employers needed individual de-politicized and eager to work. Postwar economy was expanding + needed to fill the jobs. State intervention was necessary to protect capital from its own excesses. To reduce the instability created by capitalist business cycles. State to act as a mediator in the struggle between capital and labour. Accept the labour movements demands for higher wages. To accept the control of employers over production and investment.
