Sociology 2169 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Marxism, Complex Number, Human Capital
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Activity that a person receives payment for performing . Include work in the legal labor markets as well as additional forms of work (paid, unpaid, legal, illegal) Economic definition of work produce a product or service for money. Nuanced work doing chores around the house for example. Attempts to explain some type of observable phenomenon. Social theory: an extension of trying to understand the way the world works, more specifically the way the work world works. Key concepts: power, control, inequality and conflict. The nature of work production in capitalist economies things were starting to change in the workforce, he wasn"t happy with this. Work is key to producing and reproducing social inequality. Believes we should be able to conceptualize and execute how we want to in the workplace, however capitalism takes this away from us. Were seeing exploitation and alienation because of capitalism. Exploitation the extraction of surplus value.