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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : Sociology

166-246/346 The Sociology of Work and Organisation

Availability:

Not offered in 1997.

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Mark Considine

Prerequisite/s:

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.

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 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • Charles Perrow, Organisations: A Critical Essay
  • Gibson Burrell & Gareth Morgan, Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis
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