SOCI 1002H Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Lean Manufacturing, Social Capital, Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft
5 Apr 2016
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Distal sources of power (individuals who own walmart) are becoming less in numbers but more powerful on the global scale. See big corporaions (walmart, apple) as a good thing the beneits socieies, they sell what we need, and therefore are good. Dangers exist too, if a small number of major businesses ind themselves in economic crisis the enire economy is at risk. Larges transnaional corporaions have a lot of global power: allows them to assert dominance in the economic sphere, and the ideological and poliical spheres too. Taylorism (scieniic management): a concept of managerial control of workers that developed in the early twenieth century, the goal was increased worker eiciency in order to maximize worker output and, therefore, proits (coined by. Henry ford developed the assembly line which further advanced employer"s control over workers. Ater wwii the economy expanded rapidly, led to availability of many jobs (construcion, manufacturing, and transportaion)
