SOC 4144 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Plastic Surgery, Head Transplant, North American Free Trade Agreement
5 Apr 2017
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Individuals are encouraged to read and to understand: feeling responsible for our bodies. How else does this connect to the future: schools enforced health classes, vaccinations, information on diseases, how to count calories, nutrition labels, the food pyramid. Sociology of the future is speculative, but it is informed speculation. Find examples in the news: (adam & groves) The future told: something that is definite to happen. Futures traded: e. g. making mars habitable. Futures transformed: e. g. head transplant, e. g. new sexual assault laws for lawyers and judges, transforms the conservative party in the future, e. g. reformation of nafta. Futures traversed: taking the future out of historical context and emptying it for future progress, e. g. Need to use the concepts carefull(cid:455) : do(cid:374)"t thro(cid:449) arou(cid:374)d (cid:449)ords like e(cid:448)olutio(cid:374), progress, traditio(cid:374) et(cid:272). has to (cid:271)e prese(cid:374)ted i(cid:374) the context of the readings, present concept, define concept, work through argument with evidence. Due thursday, april 13th between 9-12pm room 10061.
