SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pink-Collar Worker, Blue-Collar Worker, Masculinity
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Technology is new developments largely driven by factories that we increased. Hofstede five dimensions -- measures culture on five different dimensions. This desire for new technologies is driven by culture values -- we think it"s. 2. important to have progress, protestant ethic, and reinvestment. But simultaneously, technology creates new social structures, and technology itself leads to cultural values and developments. A dutch researcher -- hired by ibm, ibm wanted to study its offices around the world, what effects being in a different country had on how ibm employees did their work. He studied the effects of national culture. Impacts of industrialization: power distance: decline in the distance between those with low and high status and power. How distant you feel from your boss, in north america you can have your boss over for dinner, you can have personal time with your boss.
