Sociology 2145B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Job Sharing, Flextime, Income Distribution

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2145B
• Professor: Jonathan Amoyaw

Document Summary

Sociology: systematic study of humans and human interaction. Our three interests in this course are: how work is organized, how it relates to other social institutions, how workers react and cope with work. Work: an activity that produces or supplies a good or service for the market. This defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) is(cid:374)"t fully e(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:373)passi(cid:374)g of all aspe(cid:272)ts of work in relation to sociology and excludes a lot of information we have discussed. Reshaped the structure of europe through these ways: economically, socially, spatially. People did not perform labour in exchange for wages, farmers had big families and the work was kept within the family. Began to change gender based differences in labour as the workforce began to emerge. Growth of the commodity market, capital, and labour markets across. Pre- industrial: widespread poverty supported by seasonal labourers who worked to build things such as the rideau canal. Industrial: 2 things required for industrialization, available labour, infrastructure required for transportation (rideau canal)