SOAN 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Job Satisfaction, Participant Observation, Social Forces
1 Feb 2016
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Carla freeman: high tech and high heels ------ need it / will be tested on it. Ethnographic study of women working in the informatics sector in barbados. Vallas et all 2009 the sociology of work: structures and inequalities --- the textbook. Look at the meanings and orientations that people bring to bear on work. Look at the organizational structures that surround work. Look at the forms of social interactions we sustain at work. Scholars in various disciplines have looked at factors that affect worker motivation, job satisfaction, and work performance. The primacy of production thesis (page 5-9) Technology and markets are shaped by social forces: innovations do not occur in a vacuum. Informal relations at work often stand at odds with formal expectations. Marx: conflict theory, radical politics, understand social change, historical, alienation and his concept on it, modes of production; wage slavery and class.
