SOC463H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Normal Accidents, The Shock Doctrine, High Modernism
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For the test: he will provide possible essay questions for us in advance they will be based on what we have covered in class (question will be posted tuesday at the earliest, Wednesday night at the latest: will probably give us two options and we will have to pick one but both will be on the test in some way. Command and control emphasis of high modernism. In the vaughan reading from today: amoral calculator model. / immorally individuals who are unwilling to take precaution or break laws for their own short term gain: usually a story of economic interest and incentive but it could be about power, authority, or reputation. In that calculation, they estimated the value of human value at. If they reported something that ended up not being a problem, or ended up being a problem, they would have been punished either way hence the delayed reaction.
