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Soc 380 Midterm Exam 1 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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Soc 380 Midterm Exam 1 Questions And
Answers Latest Update
work ANS✔✔ "Work is the production of goods and services for:
1. One's own use or
2. To be exchanged for pay or support."
Paid labor / Market work ANS✔✔ (salary, wage, breadwinner)
Unpaid labor / Non-market work ANS✔✔ (household, volunteer)
Coerced work ANS✔✔ (prison, slavery)
Leisure ANS✔✔ "a free activity which an individual engages in for his or her
own purposes, whatever these may be." (Michael Marrus)
personal choice is what makes this different from other activites
Why study work? ANS✔✔ 1. society and work are interrelated
2. work shapes identity, values, and beliefs
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3. work influences mental and physical health
4. people are socialized by their jobs and work experiences
5. work brings people into contact with other people - social interaction &
group
dynamics.
Industrial Revolution - the most significant factor that has changed is
ANS✔✔ the structure of work.
Shift from farm to factory
Move to cities (urbanization)
Collective work atmosphere
Increased division of labor
Increased technology
Increased bureaucracy
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Four major workplace trends in last 40 years ANS✔✔ Economic
Restructuring
Upgrading and Deskilling
Increased contingent workforce:
Increased diversity:
Economic Restructuring: (1 of 4 major work trends) ANS✔✔ The economy
has shifted from "manufacturing industries" to "service industries".
Manufacturing traditionally has paid better and has provided greater
benefits than service sector
Upgrading and Deskilling (1 of 4 major work trends) ANS✔✔ Upgrading:
Increase of technology
Deskilling: Fewer skills are required of workers
Increased contingent workforce:
(1 of 4 major work trends) ANS✔✔ Temp services have increased.
Usually pay less, provide fewer benefits and hours. Manpower (Temp
service) is the largest U.S. employer.
Increased diversity:
(1 of 4 major work trends) ANS✔✔ Increase of immigrants in the workforce.
Increase of women and minorities in traditional jobs.
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