SOC102H1 Chapter Notes -Scientific Management, Anomie, Overproduction
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The satisfaction people feel from their work depends on what they want to get out of their work and what they are expecting. Class: a group of people who share the same relationship to the means of production or to capital (marx) or a group of people who share a common economic situation based on income, property , authority, etc. (weber). Marx conflict between classes is an inherent problem for capitalism. Durkheim conflict between classes in inherent in industrialism. In our age of capitalism it s the managers and directors who control capital, not the owners. Also, state institutions exercise a lot of power in society. They become isolated and estranged from the products they make, their co-workers and sometimes even themselves. The anger employees feel can be channelled to other places (violence against women, children, minority groups). Workplace inequalities translate into broader social and economic inequalities. Functionalists argue that poverty and inequality have an important place in society.
