First: I need to answer these questions used the uploaded sources and I need clear and short answers.
Second: Find the keywords for the terms.
First assignment:
1. What are the key characteristics of a global economy, and why has it come into being? What do you think will have the most important developments in work between now and 2060, when today’s college students will be retiring?
2. How did the wealthy extract surplus from those who produced food in the feudal society? How is this different from the sources of wealth today?
From: Chapter 2.
3. Please define the Hawthorne Effect and how it has influenced social research today?
4. Give an example of how workers in the same occupation- but different industries- might have a different working condition?
From: Chapter 3.
5. Please list the contribution of Karl Marx on society and his definition of work?
6. What job factors are needed for self-actualization?
7. How is Marx’s theory of alienation useful for understanding the rewards and frustrations of work in modern society?
8. Please describe the Maslow Hierarchy of needs?
From: Chapter 4.
9. Identify the key mechanisms through which discrimination in hiring, pay, and promotions persists.
10. Race and gender are social statuses that enjoy some legal protection. Social class does not enjoy such legal protection. What are the reasons for the treating social class differently from race and gender?
From: Chapter 5.
11. What are the ways parents affect their children’s work behavior? How does this influence change at different points in the family cycle and different points in the child life cycle?
12. Why is housework devalued?
13. Please define the word power, as discussed in class?
14. What is the main objective of capitalism?
15. Please define the positive and negative of Right to Work States?
16. What affect does the reduction of the Baby Boomers have on the workforce and the economy?
17. Define the generational differences from the Power Point from Dr. Macel Ely.
- Traditionalists
- Baby Boomer
- Generation Xers
- Millennials
- Generation Z
18. What are some of the positive traits of capitalism?
19. What are some of the negative traits of capitalism?
20. Why is it important to know the different traits within generations?
Second Define Chapter 3,4 and 5 Key Terms:
1. Job Satisfaction-
2. Alienation-
3. Self-Actualization-
4. Job Autonomy-
5. Bullying-
6. Job Stress-
7. Role Strain-
8. Role Conflict-
9. Comparison Group-
10. Job-worker fit-
11. Workaholism-
12. intrinsic rewards-
13. extrinsic rewards-
14. Commitment-
15. Sabotage-
1. Master Social Status
2. Social Class
3. Underclass
4. Intragenerational Social Mobility
5. Intergenerational Social Mobility
6. Opportunity Structure
7. Cultural Division of Labor
8. Occupational Steering
9. Occupational Segregation
10. Affirmative Action
11. Statistical Discrimination
12. Tokenism
13. Glass Ceiling
14. Comparable Worth
15. Sexual Harassment
2. Role
3. Individual Life Cycle
4. Sequential Life Cycle
5. Career
6. Boundaryless Career
7. Family Life Cycle
8. Socialization
9. Dead-End Job
10. Fringe Benefits
11. Entry Ports
12. Job Ladder
13. Role Overload
14. Role Conflict
15. Home Production
16. Income Squeeze
17. Flextime
18. Work Sharing
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Requirements: I need enough answers and clear to understand.

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