The Sociology of Work

Undergraduate

Examines the history of work, inequalities between workers, and how work is structured and carried out from both descriptive and critical perspectives. Focusing on paid and unpaid work, the course also explores how work is a mechanism of social control and a cause of alienation, and how people resist these forces. Prerequisite(s): 3h of 1000-level SOCI and second-year standing, or permission of the instructor.