Whenever they

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• Whenever theys a fight so hungry people can eat,
  Ill be there. Whenever theys a cop beating up
  a guy, Ill be there. Ill be there in the way
  kids laugh when theyre hungry an they know
  suppers ready. An when our folks eat the suff
  they raise an live in the houses they
  build--why, Ill be there.
• Tom Joad, migrant farm worker in John Steinbechs
  The Grapes of Wrath

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Today

• Survey due today (or Friday)
• Questions on Exam 3?
• Course evaluation
• Last lecture Social Movements
• video clip 4 a day No Way!
• What is Sociology?

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Review

• Population issues need solutions that fit
  peoples needs

Economic development reasonable equality
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Social Change

• Social Change (our future) results from
• 1) Drift
• UNPLANNED DEVELOPMENTS,
• such as population growth,
• technology, globalization
• UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES,
• such as pollution from industry

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• Actions
• Actions of RICH AND
• POWERFUL people
• Planned government POLICY
• INITIATIVES
• SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

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• SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
• LARGE NUMBERS of people who JOIN TOGETHER to
  bring about or resist some social or cultural
  change.
• This is societys self-regulation mechanism.

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• Several types of SMs
• SPECIFIC labor, civil rights,
• womens movement, abortion rights
• FORMAL ORGANIZATIONS Sierra Club, NAACP, NRA
• MANY issues (UMBRELLA)
• anti-colonialism, national autonomy
• spans generations and maybe nations

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4 a day No Way!

• How does class inequality elsewhere in the world
  affect us?
• How is power used to reinforce inequality?
• How do social movements press for change?
• How increase effectiveness of pressure?

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• KEY EXAMPLE
• labor movement (world wide)
• THE LABOR MOVEMENT One of the most successful
  social movements of modern history.
• Restructured American society in ways we take for
  granted today.
• Has world parallels, such as Solidarity Movement
  in Poland, Korea, Mexico.

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• 8-hour day (not 16 hour day)
• better pay and working conditions
• right to organize and protest
• end to child labor
• minimum wage and overtime
• health and safety
• social security
• unemployment compensation
• improvements in education, welfare, health
  insurance

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• WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY? 4 answers
• The SCIENCE of systematic observation of human
• society
• observational and survey
• A set of CONCEPTS and
• THEORIES
• functionalism, conflict,
• interactionism

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• 3) A DISCIPLINED ART
• The art of standing OUTSIDE your PRIOR
  ASSUMPTIONS in order to
• understand
• yourself and
• others.

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• 4) TOPICS
• culture and socialization
• deviance
• inequality
• family
• religion
• population
• social change

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• What is the POINT of studying these topics?
• To develop the skills of OBJECTIVELY thinking
  about social issues, which DOES NOT COME
  NATURALLY.

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• What have you learned in Introductory
  Sociology?
• What are you confused about?

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