Week 13 and 14 Flashcards
(31 cards)
Conflict theory and work
There is a strong need to minimize costs while maintaining quality.
Functionalism and Work
Work is a form of social stability, emphasizing it as an essential element of society
Feminism and Work
gender shapes the experiences of both women and men in the workplace. Recognizing that work is not gender neutral and that there are inequalities
Industrial Society
A society that combines the division of labour and mass production, which in turn produces a high standard of living
Convergance thesis
Industrialization leads societies to develop similar social, cultural and economic features
Core nations vs Peripheral Nations
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
Specialization
A system of production in which one group or person focuses on producing one part of a whole to yield greater overall efficiency
Mcdonalidization
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
Professional organization and bureaucratic organization
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)
Proletarianization of professions
Previously autonomous professions are losing control, turning into Bureaucracy work because they now report to someone above them
Bureaucratization
When companies or organizations become increasingly governed by formal rules and regulations
Post fordism
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.
Gig Economy
Refers to people who work as contractors that have variable hours and little job security
What are the downsides of artificial intelligence in the workplace
It can take jobs away and enforce stronger levels of social control.
Taylorism
Involves cutting out unessisary workers and making each worker complete the same task
Abdual makes the same part of the iPhone all day
Capital flight
Refers to the closing of regional factories to open factories in peripheral nations
Bullshit jobs
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).
Social movement
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
Collective action
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
Social movement organizations (SMO)
different organizations that share goals and attempt to implement those goals
REPERTOIRES
is the form of protest people will partake in
Example: Walkouts, protest petitions
Machine breaking
Workers’ actions against machinery and social changes resulting from industrialization
Four types of social movement
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
What is the difference between rebellion and revolution
Rebellion is not clear on replacement of authority, but deposes against it. Revolution has the goal to overthrow the government