1. Intro to Intro 2: Macrosociology
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Intro to Intro 2: Macrosociology
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2. Examples of Macrosociology (1)
Introduction to Sociology and SOCY1000
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Examples of Macrosociology (1)
Macrosociology is concerned with societies and parts of societies
Important question: How do societies change?
One way is through technological change
Consider the introduction of the automobile
Q: What changed with the introduction of the automobile?
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3. Examples of Macrosociology (2) The Automobile
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Examples of Macrosociology (2) The Automobile
For starters:
Most people today afraid to be on a horse
Not many songs about blue-tail flies
Not so many flies
Geography of supermarket products
On average travel about 1000 miles
Harms local producers
Road construction now big business
Good for immigrants
Flies like to use horse manure in their life cycle
Construction industries use a lot of immigrants
The name Shelby???
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4. Examples of Macrosociology (3)
Introduction to Sociology and SOCY1000
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Examples of Macrosociology (3)
Riches and destitution: why are there rich people and poor people?
Are the rich really different?
How much of success is inherited, how much earned?
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5. Examples of Macrosociology (4)
Racial and ethnic relations
Where do race and ethnicity come from?
Why and how do they make a difference?

6. Examples of Macrosociology (5a)
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Examples of Macrosociology (5a)
Interactions between parts of society
Example: after-school daycare programs illustrate interactions between
economy and family – two earners needed
education and family – school hours affect possible working hours
education and government – govt determines public school hours
Fairly new (80s, 90s)
Emerged when family needs/desires for two household earners (Economy) clashed with school hours
Off-school centers sprouted, but weren’t so convenient
Government approves programs in the schools
Government licenses programs (in some states)
Government provides subsidies in some cases
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Globalization
Economy
Popular culture
Hollywood
CDs of recent US movie releases cheap in China
Companies try to export US property rights law, too
Bollywood
Even the nickname reflects globalization
Hip- hop
Jamaica + Bronx  worldwide tunes
Gangnam style
For hip-hop see Giddens, Duneier, Applebaum (2005), Introduction to Sociology (5th ed), p. 94-5; The technologies (sampling and other dj tricks came largely from Jamaica) and were put together with block parties in the Bronx in the mid 1970s
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8. Globalization: Early Theory
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Globalization: Early Theory
One of the early analyses of globalization was The Communist Manifesto
1848
By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
We’ll read this later in the course, but a lot of it sounds like it could have been written in the last 10 years
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9. Micro vs Macro: The Sociological Imagination
The Sociological Imagination (Mills)
Key: ability to see connection between the life of the individual (microsociology) and the larger social context (macrosociology)
Involves ability to see connections between …
Biography and history
Personal troubles and public issues