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SOCY 336 The Sociology of Work and Technology Units: 3.00
The course examines the meaning of work and the changes taking place in the work world, with special attention devoted to new technology, gender, unionism and globalization.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite (A minimum grade of C- in SOCY 122/6.0) or (BADR 100/3.0 and BADR 101/3.0).
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify the dominant discourses, past and present, which frame the development and integration of information technologies in working practices.
- Learn to assess information technologies in working practices with respect to the possibilities they provide for greater empowerment and organization, and more sophisticated methods of control and containment of popular dissent.
- Learn to think critically about the social, cultural, and economic dimensions of information technology, and to critically assess the claims of "the information society."
- Understand the key sociological perspectives and concepts that examine the shifting forms, deployments, and experiences of information technologies in work contexts.
- Understand the relationship between work technologies and various spheres of human life such as: identity formation, cultural production, gender, surveillance, biological ethics, etc.