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Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor

By: Michael L. Schwalbe

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Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor

By: Michael L. Schwalbe

The Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor offers a new perspective on how the capitalist labor process shapes the character of its participants. Schwalbe argues that with appropriate social-psychological elaboration, Marx's original analysis of alienated labor can provide a powerful theoretical framework for understanding the psychological consequences of working for capitalism. What is needed, Schwalbe contends, is a social psychology compatible with Marx's naturalist view of human nature and which specifies more precisely the processes whereby alienated labor produces particular psychological outcomes. This social psychology is found in the work of G. H. Mead. Drawing principally on Mead's philosophy of the act and theory of aesthetic experience, Schwalbe forges a natural labor perspective that is then used to guide an empirical study of work experiences and their consequences among employees in five capitalist firms. This study shows how capitalist production limits opportunities for problem solving, role taking, means-ends comprehension, and self-objectification in work, and how the lack of these experiences affects intellectual and moral development. Schwalbe also discusses the directions implied by the natural labor perspective for pursuing a transformation of capitalist society.

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State University of New York Press

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1438419198

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The Politics of Manhood

Profeminist Men Respond to the Mythopoetic Men's Movement (and the Mythopoetic Leaders Answer)

By: Michael Kimmel

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The Politics of Manhood

Profeminist Men Respond to the Mythopoetic Men's Movement (and the Mythopoetic Leaders Answer)

By: Michael Kimmel

A much-needed, often startling debate on the personal and political dimensions of masculinity.

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402

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Temple University Press

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1439901465

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Sociology

The Core

By: Michael D. Hughes,Carolyn J. Kroehler,James Wilfrid Vander Zanden

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Sociology

The Core

By: Michael D. Hughes,Carolyn J. Kroehler,James Wilfrid Vander Zanden

This text seeks to make sociology come alive as a vital and exciting field, to relate principles to real-world circumstances, and to attune students to the dynamic processes of the rapidly changing contemporary society.

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McGraw-Hill Companies

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0070311447

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The Textures of Time

Agency and Temporal Experience

By: Michael G. Flaherty

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The Textures of Time

Agency and Temporal Experience

By: Michael G. Flaherty

What do we mean when we say, "I made the time pass more quickly," or, "I’m creating some ‘me’ time"? InThe Textures of Time, Michael Flaherty examines how we alter or customize our experience of time. His detailed analysis reveals different strategies we use to try to manipulate time, further describing and defining those strategies within six discrete time categories: Duration, Frequency, Sequence, Timing, Allocation, and Taking Time. Using in-depth interviews and analyzing responses through a sociological lens, Flaherty unearths folk theories and practices, which he calls "time work," that construct circumstances in order to provoke desired forms of temporal experience. As such, time is not justinflicted on us; rather, its various textures result from our intervention, and/or from our efforts to create different forms of temporal experience. These first-person accounts also highlight ongoing tensions between agency and determinism in social groups. Ultimately, in keeping with his central thesis, Flaherty's lucid prose make this book a quick read, and the strategies he describes reveal the profound and inventive ways we "manage the clock.

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143990264X

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Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor

By: Michael L. Schwalbe

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Book's by Michael L. Schwalbe

Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor

Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor

The Politics of Manhood

The Politics of Manhood

Sociology

Sociology

The Textures of Time

The Textures of Time

Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor

Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor

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