SOC211H5 Lecture Notes - Collective Consciousness, Complex Number, Ageism
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May 30th 2012: durkheim =affected the next generation of american thinkers. Dignity and rights of human beings: more individualism, disregarding it=a collective reaction occurs (ex. Sdt=rejects bio explanation, therefore eugenics is not a solution: but proposes social reforms, take care of environmental problems not eliminating people, contemporary slums = many countries, socially disorganized, crime and d. Study of interactions between species and their environment and between each other: reflects scarcity of resources, key concept=natural habitat, natural system, equilibrium=parts have adjusted, often system of predator prey (keep species in check) Disrupt equilibrium (into a closed system that"s natural: i. e. 2 outcomes: (1)adjust or (2)destroyed, chicago school took this idea and applied it to natural cities i. e. human ecology, the environment-cities, ecological processes operate. Four parts of assimilation: competition, groups pursue own interests without paying attention to other people or groups, conflict, groups consciously try to eliminate other groups/people, accommodation, adjust in order to reduce conflict and therefore mutual security, assimilation.
