SOCIOL 2Q06 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Social Policy, Sex Segregation, Employment-To-Population Ratio
2 Feb 2015
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3. need to work from graduation until death jobs should be their central focus fulfillment comes through work roles. Shift to factory based textile production and industrial capitalism: 3. 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. Totality of learned, socially transmitted customs, knowledge, material objects and behaviour . More contemporary discussion focus on what culture does, the impact of culture. Economy: if jobs are seen as scarce during the recession, then some of those in the potential labour force will give up looking for work. Removes them from the labour force for a period of time. Rates of participation highest in sweden, canada, the us, the uk and new.
