SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Inequality, Job Satisfaction, Interrupt
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Today"s objectives: know : two major components of social culture, two dimensions of social structure, three types of causal models, four factors affecting the development of work, five stages in development of industrialization, two basic aspects of capitalism. Terms to know: social entity, social structure, social culture, beliefs, values, indirect effects, mediating effect, interaction effects, moderating variable, socialization, industrialization, technology, division of labour, feudal society, mercantile, infrastructure, guild, capitalism, welfare capitalism, polarization. Guide to reading for this week (things to focus on pages 1-10: basic definitions such as work, some recent history, work in canada since 2000. 2009: social inequality as a problem, globalization as a cause; everything in the world seems to be more and more interconnected. Culture, models, and history: an introduction: work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind -- Thomas carlyle: i like work it fascinates me.
