SOC 334 - Work & Organizations*SSC

Credits: 5

What makes work meaningful? How can you leverage your social networks into a job? Why are bureaucracies dominant in our society and can we live without them? What does it mean to have a “boundaryless career”? These are a few of the questions we will be addressing In this course, which explores the sociological processes influencing work and organizations. During the first section of the course we will examine how sociologists have studied and theorized work and organizations in modem societies. We will follow this by exploring how people are socialized into their chosen occupations and experience their work. Then we will analyze a variety of occupations ranging from wildland firefighters and medical professionals to drug dealers. The last section of the course focuses on the structures, cultures, and environments surrounding work organizations, with particular attention paid to bureaucratic organizations in the public and non-profit sectors.

Prerequisites: college level writing.
General Education Core: Social Sciences
Course Attributes: CRIT,SSC