SOC SCI H1F Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rodney King, Corporatism, Gestapo

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOC SCI H1F
• Professor: William R Schonfeld

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Intro to the course; importance of jedwabne massacre. Human nature is malleable and can be improved, even perhaps perfected; if social conditions are rectified, anything is possible. People who lead the government should value human rights over themselves. Human beings need external structures in order to work well; laws, religion, institutions. Built up slowly and organically in their communities. Leaders of government should be subject to checks and balances. No matter how intimate a relationship with a human being, expect a certain amount of hostility. There are many roads to the truth. Sometimes abnormal situations are more telling because the normal constraints are taken away. The police seemed to be beating him because of his race. Case went to court; police were acquitted. Choose not because we think those people represent all humanity, but ask yourself if they do represent us. The people who killed the jews in neighbors were ordinary citizens.