Sociology 2169 Final: Sociology 1st Semester Final 2169 Notes.docx

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

Document Summary

Why important: work that requires skill enhances sense of mastery, self-esteem, pride and status, skilled work seen as more fulfilling, work identified as requiring skill pays better. Adam smith: believed that divisions of labour, technology, repetition and specialization actually: enhances them-leads to more productivity and provided more skill. Marx: capitalists will increase surplus value if use technology, organizational change to produce more with less skilled workers, because skilled workers are more expensive workers, he believed in deskilling. Weber: also believed in deskilling, and believed need for skilled labour would decrease. However semi-skilled workers division: specialist in narrower areas, need training but less, also believed like smith, narrower work produced more productivity. Scientific management, fordism, said to decrease skill. If left alone the employees would participate in soldiering. Expansion of managerial, professional, and other planning jobs imply increase. Deskilling: work is fragmented, simplified and controlled, such that working requires less skill than it once did.