Work Sociology

The subject Job Sociology has the following general aims:

- To analyze jobs as social relation framing the labour behaviour in a social perspective and in groups.
- To analyze the importance of jobs as mechanism of social integration, stratification and assignment of roles and status to the members of society.
- To present the main, or more influential, trends, paradigms or thought styles on Job Sociology.
- To present the method and techniques of study, the scientific approach, on Job Sociology, thinking about the most distinguished aspect from jobs and labour relation.
- This subject has direct relation with the subject Technical of social investigation, subject also annual and of the second course of the degree.

INTRODUCTION. - CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIOLOGY TO THE STUDY OF WORK AND LABOR RELATIONS
i. Object of study of Sociology. Sociological perspective
ii. Emergence of the discipline. The social structure
iii. Sociology as a science. The sociological paradigms
iv. The Sociology of Work. Research methods, techniques and resources

1.- CONCEPTUALIZATION AND MEANING OF WORK
1.1. Conceptualization and redefinition of the concept of work
1.2. From the industrial revolution to the post-industrial society
1.3. Work and its social division as an object of analysis of sociology. Classical sociology: Marx, Durkheim and Weber

2.- THE ORGANIZATION OF THE WORK PROCESS, OLD AND NEW FORMS
2.1. Rationality of bureaucratic organization: Weber.
2.2. Taylorism. The Scientific Organization of Labor (OCT).
23. Mass production. Fordism.
2.4. New forms of work organization. Crisis of Fordism?
2.5. Post-Fordism. The theory of flexible specialization. The “Just in time” production system

3.- THE QUALIFICATION OF THE WORKFORCE, CONTROL AND PARTICIPATION IN THE WORK
3.1. The qualification of the workforce.
3.1.1. The theses of raising qualifications
3.1.2. The thesis of dequalification. Braverman
3.1.3. The contingent position
3.2. Control and participation at work
3.2.1. The School of Human Relations. Elton Mayo and the Hawthorne Experiment (1927)
3.2.2. Consent in production, Michael Burawoy

4.- GENDER AND DIVERSITY IN WORK AND EMPLOYMENT
4.1. Concepts to understand the position of women and other social groups in the labor market.
4.2. Unpaid work. Use of tenses and its implications for gender relations.
4.3. Employment or paid work. Horizontal or sectoral segregation in the labor market. Vertical segregation in the labor market: the “glass ceiling”.

5.- LABOR MARKET, WORKING CONDITIONS AND CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
5.1. The labor market as a socially constructed market.
5.2. The social problem of employment. Social classes, work classes and employment classes.
5.3. From working conditions to employment conditions. Work quality crisis.
5.4. Segmentation of labor markets: types.
5.5. Working and employment conditions in Spain. The employment crisis in Europe.

6.- EFFECTS OF WORK ON BIOGRAPHIES
6.1. Theories of subjectivity at work. Historical evolution
6.2. Individualization. Ulrich Beck
6.3. The corrosion of character. Richard Sennett
6.4. The new spirit of capitalism". L. Boltanski / É. Chiapello

7.- THE FUTURE OF WORK AND EMPLOYMENT
7.1. Work crisis today: elements for debate. Redefining work. What do we do with employment?
7.2. Future proposals:
7.2.1. Gorz: reduction of working time and social income.
7.2.2. Rifkin: in the face of job shortages... the Third Sector.
7.2.3. Guy Aznar: distribution of working time
7.2.4. Robert Castel: Political will and reconstructing the role of the State
7.3. New work modalities in the era of the Digital Revolution:
7.3.1. Covid-19 and remote work.
7.3.2. New jobs… new inequalities

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Thematic journals:
Revista del Centro de Estudios de Sociología del Trabajo
Sociología del Trabajo
American Sociological Review
Work and Occupations

The basic and complementary bibliography will be specified and expanded on the virtual campus (extensive mode)

Students must know and identify the role of Sociology as a science of society.
You must know the sociological language, the scope of each of the terms that Sociology uses and the basic social processes, all of this applied to a specific social relationship: the employment relationship.
Likewise, you must know the scope of the different currents or sociological perspectives regarding work, the formal organization and the company, their explanations about the functioning of society and their considerations about future social trends with special reference to the new challenges of the work and the Sociology of work in the 21st century.
It is intended that students acquire the necessary skills to be able to carry out an analysis of social reality, understanding the reasons for how society works, social relationships, especially work relationships, and social changes.
Basic and General Competencies
CG2 - Locate, analyze, synthesize and manage different sources and types of information
CG4 - Apply critical reasoning in the study and analysis of a certain issue or topic
CG5 - Present and defend adequately, orally and/or in writing, matters or topics of a general nature or related to your specialty
CG6 - Work individually and as a team
CG3 - Plan, organize and make decisions in the development of various activities and processes
CG7 - Work and interact with others, respecting the basic rules of coexistence, fundamental rights and democratic values
Specific competencies
CE1 - Recognize and relate the processes of social change, from a historical, economic and sociological perspective, with innovations in work organization and the evolution of labor relations systems
CE3 - Locate, interpret, synthesize and represent labor and socioeconomic data and indicators

The subject is annual with nine ECTS credits, so it will have 45 hours of expository teaching and 27 hours of interactive teaching.
Working by competencies requires a teaching methodology focused on the student. With this methodology, it is intended that the student himself builds his own knowledge, knows how to make sense of what he is working on, relates content and knows what it is for or what what he is learning is applied to. Likewise, a progressive (guided) autonomy of the students is sought in the learning process that favors and continues, on their own, the process of scientific inquiry.
The teaching method used for the development of the subject is developed with the theoretical explanation of the teacher in the expository class and with the practical development of the program, in the interactive classes, among others, through practical instruments: comprehension exams on campus virtual, exercises, comments on texts, debates, attendance at talks, guided comments on documentaries and/or audiovisual sources, oral reading of texts and commentary, etc. on the topics or contents of the subject.
The evaluation of practical instruments may be adapted, in an interactive class, to a Learning and Service (APS) work.

As a general rule, it will be governed by the principle of Continuous Evaluation, which requires a minimum of 80% attendance at the interactive sessions, as well as participation in them and the delivery of all evaluable practical activities. To pass the subject it will be necessary to pass both the exam and the practices.

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT
Student evaluation will be carried out through a partial exam and a final exam. A necessary condition for students to be able to take the midterm exam will be attendance at least 80% of the interactive teaching sessions, as well as active participation in the expository sessions.
Once both exams have been passed, the average grade obtained will be worth 70% of the final grade (7 points). Passing the final exam will be a requirement to pass the subject.
The rest of the grade, 30% (3 points), will be awarded for the delivery of all the practical activities contemplated, individually and in groups. Although attendance and active participation in interactive classes, participation in talks, exhibitions and/or debates scheduled during the course, etc. will be taken into account. The practical evaluation, 30% of the grade, may be adapted to the completion of a Learning and Service (APS) project.
For the purposes of USC regulations, all the activities indicated will be considered evaluable academic activities, so the student's participation in any of them will produce the legally established consequences.
For students with a teaching exemption contemplated by USC regulations (academic exemption), they will have to agree with the teacher on the delivery of adapted practices to benefit from the 70%/30% evaluation mode. These students will be able to attend the tutorials they need throughout the academic year, although they must attend a mandatory one at the beginning of the first semester of the course where this particularity is revealed. Otherwise, they would automatically move to the non-continuous evaluation mode.

NON-CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT
Students who do not meet the requirements for attendance, completion of practical activities or do not pass them will automatically go to the non-continuous evaluation modality. This will consist of taking the final test (exam) plus a practical case, specified by the teacher. This test will be worth 100% of the final grade and will be taken on the same day as the official exam call.
Students who repeat a subject, as a general rule, will have to take advantage of this modality and evaluate the subject in the official call. Although you will be able to carry out practical activities to qualify for the 70%/30% evaluation modality, your attendance will be exempt because you are enrolled in higher courses.

EXAMINATION
The exam may consist of questions to be developed and/or multiple choice questions. Specific instructions on the tests will be available on the Virtual Campus.
The study material to pass it will be hosted on the Virtual Campus, and will include slides, texts and mandatory readings by topic. You will not be able to pass the subject by studying only the available slides, since these are study outlines (not mandatory study material).
Depending on the modality taken, the exam will count for 70% (continuous evaluation) or 100% of the grade (exam + practical case) in the non-continuous modality. Although in both cases it is necessary to pass it to finally pass the subject.
The second call exam will be governed by the same principles.

PLAGIARISM
In relation to the misuse of technologies and plagiarism in the completion of tasks and tests, students are reminded that, in cases of fraudulent completion of exercises and tests, the provisions of the performance evaluation standards will be followed. academic and review of student grades.

This is the recommended distribution of study's times:
Individual or group study: 90 hours.
Preparation of works: 25 hours.
Reading of recommended texts: 15 hours.
Preparation of interactive classes: 5 hours.
Estimated total time: roughly 3 hours per week

In order to pass the subject it is advisable and convenient for students the following:
-Regular attendance to classes.
-Analysis, thinking and studying the recommended readings additional to teaching.
-Making the suggested works during the course.

This Program will be supported by materials posted on the Virtual Campus. You will be notified through it if any type of material is deposited in the photocopier.
Students with exemption must attend, at a minimum, one tutorial.
The tutorial schedules per semester will be available to students on the USC website.
An appointment request is required through the institutional email and/or in class in order to organize and expedite student attention. Tutoring phisically or via Teams.