SOC 2680 - Sociology of Work: From the Corporate Suites to Cleaning the Streets

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Curry College

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Description:

This course examines how work is organized, how people experience it, and what it means to them. Students will learn about the structures of different kinds of workplaces. They will study how people's places within those structures relate not only to what they earn financially, but also to their well being more generally, including their sense of identity and pride, and their autonomy, health, and safety. Participants will examine how people are socialized to adapt to work organization and how occupational subcultures shape their work and their relationships with co-workers. They will explore how work - or the lack or loss of it - affects people off the job; namely, their status and relationships within the family and the larger society. Also examined will be how people's opportunities to get work and move up within the workplace are distributed and how those opportunities relate to social inequality. Workers' efforts to democratize and humanize workplaces through labor unions and other forms of collective action will be reviewed. For all these areas, students will consider the role of race and ethnicity, gender, citizenship status, and class. Prerequisite: SOC 1000 or SOC 1600. Catalog 2007-08 169

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.curry.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 333-2900

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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