SOCIOL 2Q06 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Homosociality, Employment-To-Population Ratio, Sex Segregation
1 Dec 2014
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3 principles from the work-model for men: need to work from graduation until death. 3. jobs should be their central focus fulfillment comes through work roles. Shift to factory based textile production and industrial capitalism: productive activity linked to production of exchange (associated with the market place, economic dependence on males, demise of handicraft system. Demand that wages should be set high enough so as to allow a male wage earner to support his wife and children. Unemployed: no current job, but actively looking for one. Three common measures: participation rates = labour force/potential labour force, unemployment rate = unemployed/labour force, employment rate = employment/potential labour force. Causes of gender differences in participation rates: culture: Totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects and behaviour . Removes them from the labour force for a period of time. Rates of participation highest in sweden, canada, the us, the uk and new.
