SOCY 122 Chapter Notes -Doxa, Habitat, Pink-Collar Worker

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

Document Summary

During the middle ages, work was viewed as the inevitable hardship imposed on humankind for its original sin. Work was gods will and humankind must bend to it in order to find salvation. The enlightenment and its progress are seen in the work of adam smith. Smith argues that through the invisible hand of the market, each person is pursuing their own particular interest with contribute to the wealth of the nation. The free movement of investment and productive labour to areas of the market where there is higher demand led to a regulation of production. The most important for the sociology of work, smith argued that the wealth of nations ultimately rests on the productivity gains one finds with the division of labour. Division of labour if a productive strategy and the foundation for economic surplus. Aggregating wealth and progress could only be done at the expense of individual jobs because of the shift toward improved technology.