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"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

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The Sociological Imagination“When wars happen, an insurance salesman becomes a rocket launcher; a store clerk, a radar man; a wife lives alone; a child grows up without a father. Neither the life of an individual, nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both… Yet men do not usually define the troubles they endure in terms of historical change and institutional contradiction. The well being they enjoy, they do not usually impute to the big ups and downs of the societies in which they live… The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. That is its task and its promise.” C. Wright Mills (1959)

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Ted and Zelda: A (American) Love Story?

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Wealth

In

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uality

Vocabulary

Income = paycheck

Wealth = assets - debts

Ineq

uality

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How did this

happen?

A few factors widened the gap...

Changes in PoliticsDeunionization

Supply-Side EconomicsDistrust in Government

Changes in the Economy

DeindustrializationAutomation of Labor

Changes in SocietyCredentialization

Divorce/Remarriage

Let's look at wages...

40:1

Has it always

been like this?

1960...

Earned $102.8 m in 2008$1,976,923 per week

$282,418 per day$35,302 per hr

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April 4th, 2013

What if we expanded

our definition of wealth?

Book knowledge influence, connections

non-living physical objects

depends on your personal religion, spirituality, or other practice to connect with yourself and the wider universe

gathered by a communitymoney!

animals, plants, soil, and water of our land

knowledge you hold about how to do something because you’ve actually done it

How can you apply this expanded

concept of wealth in your life?

Family?School?Service?

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