SOC227H5 Lecture 1: SOC 227
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Soc 227- work and occupations session #1: culture, models, history. Periodical 1: its fine since industrial revolution, panics about jobs. Luddites is a byword for all those that try in vein to stop technological process. Advances in information technology because it threatens jobs that first seemed invincible to automation (secure jobs) The substitution effect, jobs formally done by people are taken over by technology. Versatile robots going to take over for humans at an insane rate, previous experience shows that focusing on a substitution makes no sense because of the increase in jobs available due to technology. Drop in agricultural employment from 40 % drops to 2% 1/50, the new jobs that technology makes possible compensates for those that it takes. Social culture: social entity: a grouping of individuals with some awareness that they are members of the group (families) social structure: the relationships among the individual parts of the entity social culture: (hierarchical, teacher, students etc. )
