S W 327 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: International Monetary Fund, Critical Consciousness, Wage Labour
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Bifurcate divide into two branches, as in labor force bifurcation into a core of stable, well-paid labor and a periphery of causal, low-wage labor. Conservative thesis a philosophy that inequality is the natural, divine order and no efforts should be made to alter it. Critical consciousness the ongoing process of reflection and knowledge seeking about mechanisms and outcomes of social, political, and economic oppression; requires taking personal and collective action toward fairness and social justice. Economic institution the social institution with primary responsibility for regulating the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Educational institution the social institution responsible for passing along formal knowledge from one generation to the next. Family and kinship institution the social institution primarily responsible for the regulation of procreation, for the initial socialization of new members of society, and for the economic, emotional, and physical care of its members.
