SOC227H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Absenteeism, Free Market, Railways Act 1921
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Worry about jobs comes from the substitution effect (machines taking over jobs) Current fear is that ever more versatile robots will substitute for labor on a larger scale. However, this disregards the creation of new jobs to help run these machines. Different media have different views on whether to worry or not about future jobs. Social entity: grouping of individuals with awareness that they"re members of the group. Social structure: the relationships among the individual parts of the entity. Social culture - made up of: beliefs: broad ideas about the social entity and how the world works. Has cause and effect, regardless whether true or not: values: ideas about what"s important, norms: commonly accepted and expected behaviors in the social entity, symbols: objects and behaviors that illustrate the beliefs and values. Interpretation: less m-f power difference, more male employees = more gender harassment: indirect effect: Mediating effect: tells us how the cause works: interaction effect:
