SOCY 336- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 69 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 336
• Professor: Andrew Silver

Document Summary

Agreement by two parties in exchange for goods and services. Something you spend your time, energy and knowledge on. Use our historical understanding of work, changes concerning work to tackle major questions: Individual agency vs. social structure: goals for the course: micro. Use our study of work and technology to critically engage with the world around us: Critically asses what we are told about work. 4: wide ranging jobs replaced with narrow set of tasks, informal work relations replaced with, impersonal relations in large organizations, education and qualifications become central to success. Today: how are jobs and labour market trends changing: labour force participation (age and gender) & unemployment, occupational changes, non-standard work and self-employment, changing work hours. Labour force: gender and age: general decline in men working is life expectancy decline we are living longer outside of the labour market people continue to live longer beyond retirement age. 2: this is expected to decrease in the next 10-15 years.