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WHAT IS SOCIOLOGY?
Coffee is a commodity.
Colonialism = trading relationships.
Consumed in rich countries yet grown with few excepti
ons in the poorest parts of the globe.
2nd most valuable item of legal international trade.
Largest food import of the U.S. by value.
People Living in 6ft by 2ft rabbit hutches - in a city with more Louis Vuitton shops than Paris
Course Assessment
Schedule of Tutorials
Todays Revision
Definition of sociology
Social institutions, bureaucracy, norms & valu
es.
Auguste Comte
Mechanical & organic solidarity (Durkheim)
Gemeinschaft & gesellschaft (Tonnies)
Rational & nonrational behaviour (Weber)
Proletariat, bourgeoisie & capitalism (Marx)
C. Wright Mills:
The Sociological Imagination