Sociology 2169 Midterm: Sociology 2169 Study Notes 1st Semester Midterm.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2169
• Professor: Stephen Adams

Document Summary

Paid work: an activity that a person receives payment for performing. Econmist: activity that produces a good or service for the market. Unpaid+paid definition: exertion of energy, physical or mental; effort directed to some purpose or end . Marxian definitions: an activity that produces a use value a good, or service useful to us, tilly and tilly (1998): work is human effort that adds use value to goods and services . Use value means what is produced has value, whether economically, socially or personally. What does work do for us: 1) economic role: Social level: work contributes to societal well-being: 2) social functions: identity, fulfillment, satisfaction, social interaction, social status. The meaning of work: some have instrumental attitudes to work: work is a means to an end, others have an emotional attachment to work and derive satisfaction, meaning from the work itself. Animals work by instinct vs humans who think about what we"re going to do, we conceptualize: alienation.