SOC 110 - Essay - 1000 words

Day #14 of 20:

Soc 110: Introduction to Sociology

June 19th, 2018

UIBE SUMMER SCHOOL

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Experiments

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Main Issues with Methodology

1. Operationalization of concepts 2. Validity 3. Reliability

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All research methods are concerned with:

n”Universe” of people or specific population of people

nSamples nSystematic Sampling nRandom Sampling nStratified Sampling nSnow-Ball Sampling

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The underlying historical goal of sociological research

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• To understand the distribution of power in society

• To understand how power or lack of power affects people’s choices in life

• To fully explain how power & choices are transformed through wage differences, which is a key mechanism of power distribution

Marx on and alienation

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The crisis of the self

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Capitalism and Alienation Marx

• Alienation: the detachment or estrangement of our identity from our sense of self OR the experience of isolation and misery resulting from powerlessness

• Alienation from the products of work. • Alienation from other workers. • Alienation from human potential (and the self)

For Marx, the alienation of labor as physical exchange of time under industrialization

• Today’s economy is increasingly about people’s non-physical exchange in the service economy

• We call this emotional labor.

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Alienation in the form of emotional labor is the costliest aspect of the labor process, but it is virtually free to corporations and employers. It is also the source of the deepest division in today’s advanced industrialized societies.

Applying sociology to study alienation in today’s economy

• The example of Arlie Russell Hochschild’s study on flight attendants and bill collectors.

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Emotional Labor

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• Surface acting • Deep acting

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Two types of emotional Labor