Chapter 11 SOCIOLOGY

Resistance Strategies

Ways that workers express discontent with their working conditions and try to reclaim control of the conditions of their labor.

Communism

A system of government that eliminates private property; the most extreme form of socialism, because all citizens work for the government and there are no class distinctions.

Sweatshop

A workplace where workers are subject to extreme exploitation, including below-standard wages, long hours, and poor working conditions that may pose health or safety hazards.

Outsourcing

"Contracting out" or transferring to another country the labor that a company might otherwise have employed its own staff to perform; typically done for financial reasons.

Socialism

An economic system based on the collective ownership of the means of production, collective distribution of goods and services, and government regulation of the economy.

Capitalism

An economic system based on the laws of free market competition, privatization of the means of production, and production for profit, with an emphasis on supply and demand as a means to set prices.

Globalization

The cultural and economic changes resulting from dramatically increased international trade and exchange in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Independent or Third Sector

The part of the economy composed of nonprofit organizations; their workers are mission driven, rather than profit driven, and such organizations direct surplus funds to the causes they support.

Industrial Revolution

The rapid transformation of social life resulting from the technological and economic developments that began with the assembly line, steam power, and urbanization.

Information Revolution

The recent social revolution made possible by the development of the microship in the 1970s, which brought about vast improvements in the ability to manage information.

Agricultural Revolution

The social and economic changes, including population increases, that followed from the domestication of plants and animals and the gradually increasing efficiency of food production.

Shallow Integration

Thing of the past. Both countries would benefit.

Knowledge Workers

Those who work primarily with information and who create value in the economy through their ideas, judgments, analyses, designs, or innovations.

Service Workers

Those whose work involves providing a service to businesses or individual clients, customers, or consumers rather than manufacturing goods.

Deep Integration

Today. Companies are multinational, many countries involved in production of goods. Driver is trans-national companies.

Telecommuting

Working from home while staying connected to the office through communications technology.