Sociology 1021E Lecture Notes - Order Theory, Occupational Segregation, Social Inequality

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Ch. 14 organizations and work work - activity that makes physical materials, services, and ideas more useful. Human work different than animal work because. Early human societies ; social division of labour. Nomadic; serfs farm land while lord manage and own. Industrialism; marx, social discontent and overthrow of upper class. Scientific management/fordism/taylorism - breaking down production into smaller more manageable parts . Increases productivity for mass production but not wellbeing of workers. Could not be used for smaller quantities of production. Workers rebelled bc work too brainless and repetitive. Social contract: gov"t, businesses, and workers understand that hard growth and cooperation leads to economic growth. Could be positive or not (rumour mills), flexible and functional rationalization - capitalist"s concern with increasing efficiency; more detailed division of labour negotiated order theory organizations are flexible structures developed through interpersonal interactions. Mcdonalization/rationalization efficiency, calculability (quantity over quality), predictability, control. Dehumanizing and harmful, spread to other sectors of society causing a lost of autonomy (exp.

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