It focusses on ideologies within school and education, and their relation to social pathologies, such as radicalization, nationalism, and exclusion, as well as to current, critical debates on identity politics. Selfish corporations are only symptoms of the problem.This module presents critical sociological theories as a foundation for the analysis of knowledge, education and modernity. The narrator asserts that controlled demolition caused the World Trade Center collapse, and that groups such as the CFR control the world. Afghan invasion plans were on Bush's desk two days before 9/11. Statistics on opium production levels in Afghanistan are used to support the argument that desire for control of opium production is behind U.S. We hear a portrayal of the supposed terror threat as exaggerated to divert attention from economic inequality and delegitimize any opposition to U.S. In scene from "Network" (1976), a character argues that we no longer live in a world of nations or ideologies, but instead have one global economic system. corporations have wealth that would rank them among the top 100 countries in GDP. Poverty in Ecuador increased in decades following late 60s loans. The world's wealth gap and poverty levels increased for much of recent history World Bank policies have hurt. Ecuadorian Amazonian people are suing Chevron for dumping oil. Environmental Degradation (00:46)Ĭorporations pollute poor countries' environments. The IMF and World Bank dominate countries through debt and conditions such as currency devaluation, privatization and trade liberalization are criticized. as clandestine empire, run by corporations who base decisions on the paradigm of profit maximization without regard to social consequences. responses to the failure of either economic power brokers or CIA assassination attempt to get Saddam to act in U.S. John Perkins interprets the Gulf War and the Iraq War as U.S. With the people's backing, Chavez overcame the attempt. The CIA staged the 2002 coup attempt, John Perkins believes. What is social pathology Pathology is a medical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the laboratory analysis of bodily fluids such as blood and urine, as well as tissues, using the tools of chemistry, clinical microbiology, hematology and molecular pathology. The CIA was behind his death in a plane crash, Perkins says. With biological analogies currently being looked on with suspicion the term is now relatively little used, but was used by functionalist sociologists including DURKHEIM (1895). The concept is closely related to those of social disorganization and deviance. social pathology (by analogy with health and sickness in organisms) any condition of society regarded as unhealthy. Panama's Torrijos envisioned a Latin America free of U.S. Social pathology was a very influential model in nineteenth-century American and European sociological writings on social problems. economic interests were unhappy Perkins blames the U.S. Jaime Roldos Aguilera won election in Ecuador on a platform of giving resources back to the people, taking power in 1979. Roldos Aguilera Allegedly Assassinated (01:43) Guatemala's Arbenz sought to give land back to the people, threatening United Fruit Company's dominance. Perkins interprets this as the first precedent for economic imperialism. The CIA overthrew Iran's Mossadegh in 1953 when he tried to get foreign oil companies to pay more for Iran's oil. John Perkins says "economic hit men," of whom he used to be one, arrange World Bank loans that benefit rich people in poor countries, then dominate those countries through debt they cannot repay. Global Economic Empire (02:13) FREE PREVIEW
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