SOCY 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reflexive Modernization, Feminist Sociology, Research Question

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 303
• Professor: W.Andrew Silver

Document Summary

Socy 303 lecture # 3 (week 2) What are industries, occupations, and professions: contextualizing (and theorizing) the emergence of professional work in canada. Agenda: finishing up from last time. Changing interest in professions (hollister: making a claim (article) Post-industrialism: post-industrialism compared to post-fordism reflexive modernization. Compare it to other terms that haven been used to describe the massive change. Harvey post-fordism to highlight flexibility shrinking job security that came with working in small organization. Beck called the shift reflexive modernization emphasis of individuals taking risks. Jan. 17, 2017: bell (1976) on post-industrialism. If capital and labor are the major structural features of industrial society, information and knowledge are those of the post-industrial society (p. v) To make his prediction he looked at university participation rates. The growth of professional and technical work has outdistanced all other major occupational groups in recent decades (p. 137) Notes how professional and technical work were the most growing occupations.