SOC 478 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Juliet Schor, Social Identity Theory, Studs Terkel

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 478
• Professor: Graeme Metcalf

Document Summary

By the end of the 19th century industrialization had brought about the transformation of work for a large proportion of the labour force of north america. New ideas on work involved minute analysis of industrial work process, designed to simplify and routinize them to maximize efficient and profits. By the 1960s: the new emergence of post-industrial societies marked by technological innovations, high rates of productivity and economic growth, profit is achieved, but alienation sets in. The worker begins to see work dominate life. We begin to experience isolation, discontent, misery resulting from monotony. The work-life balance is upset as we fail to demarcate (cid:498)work(cid:499) and (cid:498)life(cid:499) as separate daily experiences. )n short, for a sort of (cid:498)life(cid:499) rather than a monday through friday sort of (cid:498)dying(cid:499) . Three trends in contemporary leisure escapes from work based alienation: Leisure and consumption: the real problem confronting contemporary society is not only realizing full employment, but also coping with the problems of overwork.