SOCA02H3 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 notes
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Early factor workers aka urabn proletariat by marx- worked 80 hrs a week; terrible working conditions; got sunday offl there was filth and disease everywhere; General conceptual category: intrinsic gratification- work shuld be performed for its own sake . Marx was in humanistic- (human centered problems) phase here; work shuld be performed for the gratification it provides;shuld be an inner relationship b/w the person and the thing the person creates; this is. Combines intrinsic and extrinsic gratification; higher education pays well, not closely supervises, good benefits, security etc pfofessional give both intrinsic and extrinsic gratification. Material and psychological ownership is lost when ideal craftsmanship is lost. Rationalization-comes form max weber who says that major development in world since beginning of industrial revolution to describe modern life; rage against machine; So efficients and productivity becomes cultural value; so alienation ppl call it regimentation value.
