Week 13 and 14 Flashcards

(31 cards)

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Conflict theory and work

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There is a strong need to minimize costs while maintaining quality.

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Functionalism and Work

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Work is a form of social stability, emphasizing it as an essential element of society

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Feminism and Work

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gender shapes the experiences of both women and men in the workplace. Recognizing that work is not gender neutral and that there are inequalities

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Industrial Society

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A society that combines the division of labour and mass production, which in turn produces a high standard of living

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Convergance thesis

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Industrialization leads societies to develop similar social, cultural and economic features

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Core nations vs Peripheral Nations

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Core nations hold strong central governments, vast bureaucracies and huge armies to gain influence and capital over the world

Peripheral nations: Lack strong governments and are exploited by core nations of resources and labour

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Specialization

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A system of production in which one group or person focuses on producing one part of a whole to yield greater overall efficiency

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Mcdonalidization

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Efficiency: reducing the time to complete a task

Calculability: knowing and quantifying how much each person is making

Predictability: being able to Standardize the price, product and service from one location to another

Control: having all employees managed and trained the same so they can easily be replaced

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Professional organization and bureaucratic organization

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Bureaucracy work: Where authority has a pyramid-shaped authority structure

Professional Work: views each coworker as a peer and lacks a boss. (this is changing)

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Proletarianization of professions

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Previously autonomous professions are losing control, turning into Bureaucracy work because they now report to someone above them

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Bureaucratization

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When companies or organizations become increasingly governed by formal rules and regulations

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Post fordism

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the change from single-line working production towards team production on shorter-term contracts that allows for decentralization of work.

Uber drivers work for themselves but rely on Uber to connect them with clients and pay them.

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Gig Economy

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Refers to people who work as contractors that have variable hours and little job security

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What are the downsides of artificial intelligence in the workplace

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It can take jobs away and enforce stronger levels of social control.

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Taylorism

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Involves cutting out unessisary workers and making each worker complete the same task

Abdual makes the same part of the iPhone all day

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Capital flight

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Refers to the closing of regional factories to open factories in peripheral nations

17
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Bullshit jobs

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Flunkies exist to make others feel important (e.g., unnecessary assistants).

Goons – jobs based on manipulation or force (e.g., aggressive marketers, lobbyists).

Duct tapers – fix problems that shouldn’t exist (e.g., fixing bad processes).

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Social movement

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An organized effort by one or more groups to promote or resist change through various types of engagement

4 main characteristics are required for social movement

Collective action
Social change
WUNC (worthy, unified, numerous and committed
Organization change

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Collective action

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Individuals working together to achieve a common goal

Jagpreet and his friends want better wages as Uber drivers, therefore, they collectively come together to protest for better wages

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Social movement organizations (SMO)

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different organizations that share goals and attempt to implement those goals

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REPERTOIRES

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is the form of protest people will partake in

Example: Walkouts, protest petitions

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Machine breaking

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Workers’ actions against machinery and social changes resulting from industrialization

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Four types of social movement

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Revolutionary: Overthrow the existing system and replace it with a new one

Example: Arab Spring

Reformative: works on partial change and changing within the system

Redemptive: to bring personal change within the person (usually religious)

alternative: looks at the individual change of a person

Example anti smoking

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What is the difference between rebellion and revolution

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Rebellion is not clear on replacement of authority, but deposes against it. Revolution has the goal to overthrow the government

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Conflict theory and Social movement
Social movements stem from injustices, and the aim of these movements is to create new social order
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feminism and Social movements
Gender inequality and male dominace are things they protest about Asking for equal treatment
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New social movement theory
using new digital media to focus on a single issue
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Local grassroots
Are communities of people who have the intention to target local policitcs and elites
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waves of protest
Multiple groups of people are protesting around the country for the same movement
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Transnational movement
Are movements that are borderless and span across multiple countries
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Three forms of tactics
Contained are protests that are legally allowed and are contained by freedom of speech Disruptive: forms of non-violent action that are borderline illegal (sit-outs, blocking traffic) Violent: most extreme and illegal (fighting, arson)