[SOC227H5] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (18 pages long)
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Study guide: soc 227 chapter 1 historical perspective on work. You will spend the next half of your life working, some experiences you face are: balancing work and personal life, work overload, unemployment, career change, workplace discrimination, harassment, bullying, having opposing values than those you work with. You must be aware of what is happening in the work field, in the past and present. Knowing about the work place"s history and their present/future state will help in understanding what to expect in the future, make good decisions. Work can be considered as an activity that produces a good or service, for one"s own use (school work) or a service paid for (a nurse/farmer), and or support (slavery/dog pulling sled). Forced done through enforcing, having little or no pay. Market work similar work tasks being done, all having different values in the free market . Non-market work work done for personal or social gain, no pay.
