SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Jared Diamond, Societal Collapse, Ornithology

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

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Collapse: diamond"s model, apocalyptic scenarios, sociology of collapse, the bottom line: social arrangements aren"t permanent and they are vulnerable. Thursday thumbs up/down votes of the articles. Exam last 6 lectures; collapse, debt, cars, china, population, and stupidity; 10 on each lecture, 7 on readings, a few extra questions. Ethnocentric assumption to assume that hey, the world"s going great ; culture has a. Vi. tendency to be self-congratulatory, but there are limitations to this. Diamond offers other cases the anasazi (deforested their part of the 4 corners area), Jews, and muslims; harmony among these groups during the warm period; when it cooled, had bad harvests, and said god was angry because they were tolerating people who believed in the wrong god; widespread ethnic cleansing throughout. British using non-violence; this worked: although india was the most valuable of the british colonies, the british left; became an independent country, lost south africa, british colonies became independent.