SOC 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Socialized Medicine, Barter, Social Gospel

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2080
• Professor: Anthony Winson

Document Summary

Devastating results of wwii: cologne, germany (population from nearly 1 million to roughly 40"000, dresden firebombing (one example, battle of stalingrad, wwii deaths all countries 50,000,000. The great depression and the rise of the ccf. The 20s and expansion of the wheat pools: period of expansion and boom, wheat pools controlling half of the wheat in the prairies before 1920s. Onset of depression and fall of the price of wheat: . 50 => . 38 cents: 1929 depression had particularly harsh effects on the prairies. Dilemma of the pool: aftermath: had a lot of wheat already paid for but could not sell/earn money after collapse, pools had to seek funds to be bailed out. Free fall in farm income on the prairies: most economy based on wheat everyone was affected. The failure of self provisioning" (40%: people before were getting certain amount of food from the land they controlled to avoid supermarkets/costs but even this failed.