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1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p154) : Next:166-350 | Prev:166-245
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Mark Considine.
Prerequisite: 25 points of 1st-year Sociology; or 12.5 points Sociology and 12.5 points of Political Science.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- understand the development of industrial sociology since 1850;
- make effective use of contemporary studies of the transformation of the workplace;
- undertake research on the structure and significance of the division of labour and management in Australia;
- undertake research on comparative workplace change in Australia, North America and Europe.
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.
Prescribed texts:
1. Politics, Faculty of Arts (v3, p154) : Next:166-350 | Prev:166-245
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p166) : Next:166-353 | Prev:166-245
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit 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:
- understand the development of industrial sociology since 1850;
- make effective use of contemporary studies of the transformation of the workplace;
- undertake research on the structure and significance of the division of labour and management in Australia;
- undertake research on comparative workplace change in Australia, North America and Europe.
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.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that CONTACT, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. Politics, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p166) : Next:166-353 | Prev:166-245
3. Sociology, Faculty of Arts (v3, p166) : Next:136-209 | Prev:166-245
Availability: Not offered in 1996.
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Mark Considine.
Prerequisite: Normally 25 points of 1st-year Sociology
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject should be able to:
- understand the development of industrial sociology since 1850;
- make effective use of contemporary studies of the transformation of the workplace;
- undertake research on the structure and significance of the division of labour and management in Australia;
- undertake research on comparative workplace change in Australia, North America and Europe.
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.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that PREREQUISITES, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
3. Sociology, Faculty of Arts (v3, p166) : Next:136-209 | Prev:166-245
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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