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Soc 241 Course Review

Soc 241 Course Review. Outline. Alienation and Dealienation Industrial Capitalism Directions of Change and Leadership Sex, Gender and Work Workplace Mobbing and Working Center. Work Alienation, Non-Alienation Co-active Power and Reciprocity . Alienation: Powerlessness. Sources:

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Soc 241 Course Review

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  1. Soc 241 Course Review

  2. Outline • Alienation and Dealienation • Industrial Capitalism • Directions of Change and Leadership • Sex, Gender and Work • Workplace Mobbing and Working Center

  3. Work Alienation, Non-Alienation Co-active Power and Reciprocity

  4. Alienation: Powerlessness Sources: • Concentration of Power • Market • Division of Labour Video

  5. DeAlienation Alleviating Alienation: 1) Group Work, Teams 2) Teacher, Student Relations 3) Reciprocation, Communication

  6. Industrial Capitalism

  7. Blue Collar / White Collar Work Difference: Blue Collar White Collar

  8. The Communist Manifesto • A classless society of group ownership • Designed to free the oppressed (proletariat) from their oppressors (bourgeois) and run a communist society

  9. The Principles of Scientific Management • Worker control is the key to a more efficient work place. • Fredrick Taylor vs. Karl Marx • Lean production

  10. Directions of Change & Leadership

  11. The Real Keys to High Performance The Real Sources of Success Success is impartial to: • Operating in a high technology industry. • Operating in a rapidly growing industry. • The size of company.

  12. Bureaucracy • goals and rules to achieve the goal • rules, nationality • Legal - rational authority • Charismatic authority • Traditional authority

  13. Secrets to Great Groups • At the heart of every Great Group is a shared dream. • They manage conflict by abandoning individual egos to the pursuit of the dream. • They are protected from the "suits.” • They have a real or invented enemy. • They view themselves as winning underdogs. • Members pay a personal price. • Great Groups make strong leaders. • Great Groups are the product of meticulous recruiting. • Great Groups are usually young. • Real artists ship.

  14. Zombie Business Four destructive patterns of behaviour that set in: • Flawed executive mind-sets • Delusional attitudes • Breakdowns in communication systems • Ineffective leadership qualities

  15. Sex, Gender, and Work Video

  16. “Why Men Earn More Than Women” by Marty Nemko • Review of Dr. Warren Farrell’s book, “Why Men Earn More” • We are wrong - for the same work, women earn more than men • If women wish to earn more than men, they must: • Choose careers that pay more • Put in more hours • Be more productive in the hours they do work

  17. “Remarks at NBER Conference...” • Lawrence Summers (from Harvard) proposes three hypotheses: • High powered job • Many women are unwilling to put in the work needed for high-powered jobs • Different availability of aptitude at the high end

  18. “Remarks at NBER Conference...”

  19. “Remarks at NBER Conference...” • Lawrence Summers (from Harvard) proposes three hypotheses: • High powered job • Many women are unwilling to put in the work needed for high-powered jobs • Different availability of aptitude at the high end • Different socialization and patterns of discrimination in a search • Under-representation of female scientists at elite universities may stem in part from “innate” differences between men and women.

  20. “Causes of Gender Difference” by American Sociological Association • Social factors, not innate biological differences, are what create the gap between women’s abilities and their occupational attainments • Media • Cultural Stereotypes • Social Assumptions

  21. “Hysteria Trumps Academic Freedom” by Doreen Kimura • Doreen Kimura stresses that Lawrence Summers did not do anything to warrant resignation • Men are better at spatial tasks and mathematical reasoning tasks • Women are better at tasks requiring verbal memory and recalling position of objects • We should simply allow people to pursue their own talents and interests, and thus there will be a different representation of men and women across occupations

  22. “Who Stole Harvard” by Christina Hoff Sommers • Christina Hoff Sommers says that nothing Lawrence Summers said was a threat to women in any of the sciences • Nancy Hopkins • Natalie Angier • Megan Urry • Virginia Valian • If Summers goes down at Harvard, it will seriously damage the standards and traditions of American higher education

  23. “Mod Rule at Harvard” by Barabara Kay • Barbara Kay says that Lawrence didn’t say that women are dumber, but that, on average, they are less likely to be either hypersmart or hyperdumb • Harvard president only compounded his problem by publicly apologizing over and over again for a crime he did not commit • it is actually part of a recognizable and oft-replicated phenomenon that's been dubbed "workplace mobbing.“ • universities should concentrate on serious efforts to make campuses open to a diversity of opinion

  24. “Flirting with Disaster” by Ada Calhoun • Ada Calhoun is the office slut • She’s efficient at her work, gets bored • Makes jokes out of sexual harassment policies • Eventually cheats on her boyfriend with a co-worker • Work and personal life suffer

  25. Workplace Mobbing What is workplace mobbing? Indicators Phases Effects

  26. The Working Center Ideas and Influences Decentralism: • Basic Human Condition • Historic Norm • Deeply American • Presently Occurring

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