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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
New York Fast Food Workers Strike
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?
