[SOAN 2040] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (72 pages long)

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SOAN 2040
• Professor: D Rose

Document Summary

Deny the superordinate (dominate) position of class and the separation of public and private spheres. Avoid polarizing technical or non-human and human aspects of the labour process (machines, equipment, social media etc. ) View work as socially constructed, as a combination of moral, social and market rationale. Views the world of work as what those involved take it to be rather than a determinate object. Outlines, briefly, the main theoretical and ethnographic concerns of the book. Definitions of work are cultural and embedded in relations of power (economic and symbolic power) Arendt"s distinction between labour and work (familiar with from text) State definitions economically active or production (generating tax revenue) Distinction between work and occupation (occupation is distinct from work, occupation isn"t always your work you can have an occupation and not be working) Bronislaw malinowski"s ethnographic account of the trobriand islanders (1922) (economic system that included ritual aspects etc. ) Marshall sahlines (1972) stone age economics (foraging societies) (comparing)