SOC 360 Lecture Notes - Macedonian Americans, Metalworking, Silk Road

• School: U of S
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 360
• Professor: Darrell Mc Laughlin

Document Summary

To understand how and why they are taking place. Media images and our consciousness of the world. Watching wares and emergencies (floods in pakistan, tsunami, aids, unfold) The haves and have nots of information and technology: not a north/south divide like it is believed/perceived to be. We have a tendency to understand the local easily, unlike the global. We are more aware of the bad news take place. We can see the world as an entirety, it is all connected. We can think about whats going on in the lit/dark spots. We track the growth of the population but. Distribution of cost/benefits of globalization. not energy consumption. Interdependence between the local and the global. Gdp (gross domestic product) to track economy. Quality of life surveys (statistics canada): we lose the individual with these. We need the tension to see the impact of individuals, we need to understand the tension.