Sociology 2169 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Homo Economicus, Complex Number, Mcdonaldization
8 Apr 2016
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In class writing quizzes will be based on lecture material only th 2014. Activity that a person receives payment for performing. Include work in the legal labour market as well as additional forms of work (e. g. paid, unpaid, legal, illegal) Social theory a more systematic way of looking how the world works in this course were focusing on the way the workplace works. These 4 concepts in various lights will be key. The nature of work production in capitalist economies. Work is key to producing and reproducing social inequality. The labour theory of value: labour is the source of value in any object. He was talking about more goods than services because of the time of his research. Nothing has value unless there is labour put into it. (example: a chair has no value on its own, until the tree is cut down and the wood is made into a chair that is its value)
