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<TITLE>THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND ORGANISATION</TITLE>
<AVAILABILITY>Not offered in 1996.
<POINTS>16.7 2nd and 3rd years
<COORDINATOR>Mark Considine.
<PREREQUISITES>25 points of 1st-year Sociology; or 12.5 points Sociology and 12.5 points of Political Science.
<SEMESTER>First semester
<CONTACT>Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week.
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject should be able to:
<ul>
<li>understand the development of industrial sociology since 1850;
<li>make effective use of contemporary studies of the transformation of the workplace;
<li>undertake research on the structure and significance of the division of labour and management in Australia;
<li>undertake research on comparative workplace change in Australia, North America and Europe.
</ul>
<CONTENT>The subject provides a theoretical overview of the structure and organisation of the workplace in industrial and post-industrial societies including: the division of labour, the emergence of management techniques and roles, the nature of employment practices, workplace power and unionisation, and the impact of globalisation. The subject would undertake to equip students to critically analyse the work of Durkheim, Weber, Parsons, Mayo, Freud, Sennett, Touraine and Harvey. These theoretical claims and critiques would be applied to the Australian experience in the twentieth century and to empirical work drawn from the USA, Canada and Western Europe.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work totalling 5,000 words.
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Charles Perrow, Organisations: A Critical Essay
<ATEXT>Gibson Burrell &amp; Gareth Morgan, Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis
</PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
</SUBJECT>
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<SUBJECT ID="166-246" CODEUSED="166-246/346">
<TITLE>THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND ORGANISATION </TITLE>
<AVAILABILITY>Not offered in 1996.
<POINTS>16.7
<COORDINATOR>Mark Considine.
<CONTACT>Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial each week.
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject should be able to:
<ul>
<li>understand the development of industrial sociology since 1850;
<li>make effective use of contemporary studies of the transformation of the workplace;
<li>undertake research on the structure and significance of the division of labour and management in Australia;
<li>undertake research on comparative workplace change in Australia, North America and Europe.
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<CONTENT>The subject provides a theoretical overview of the structure and organisation of the workplace in industrial and post-industrial societies including: the division of labour, the emergence of management techniques and roles, the nature of employment practices, workplace power and unionisation, and the impact of globalisation. The subject would undertake to equip students to critically analyse the work of Durkheim, Weber, Parsons, Mayo, Freud, Sennett, Touraine and Harvey. These theoretical claims and critiques would be applied to the Australian experience in the twentieth century and to empirical work drawn from the USA, Canada and Western Europe.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work totalling 5,000 words.
<PRESCRIBEDTEXTS>
<ATEXT>Perrow C <i>Organisations: A Critical Essay. </i> Burrell G &amp; Morgan G <i>Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis.</i>
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<TITLE>THE SOCIOLOGY OF WORK AND ORGANISATION</TITLE>
<AVAILABILITY>Not offered in 1996.
<POINTS>16.7 2nd and 3rd years
<COORDINATOR>Mark Considine.
<PREREQUISITES>Normally 25 points of 1st-year Sociology
<SEMESTER>First semester
<CONTACT>Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week.
<OBJECTIVES>Students who complete this subject should be able to:
<ul>
<li>understand the development of industrial sociology since 1850;
<li>make effective use of contemporary studies of the transformation of the workplace;
<li>undertake research on the structure and significance of the division of labour and management in Australia;
<li>undertake research on comparative workplace change in Australia, North America and Europe.
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<CONTENT>The subject provides a theoretical overview of the structure and organisation of the workplace in industrial and post-industrial societies including: the division of labour, the emergence of management techniques and roles, the nature of employment practices, workplace power and unionisation, and the impact of globalisation. The subject would undertake to equip students to critically analyse the work of Durkheim, Weber, Parsons, Mayo, Freud, Sennett, Touraine and Harvey. These theoretical claims and critiques would be applied to the Australian experience in the twentieth century and to empirical work drawn from the USA, Canada and Western Europe.
<ASSESSMENT>Written work totalling 5,000 words.
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<ATEXT>Charles Perrow, <i>Organisations: A Critical Essay</i>
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