Sociology
- How do the three sociological perspectives view the economy and the approach that you find most valuable?
The three sociological perspectives are functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. Functionalism views society as a structure of interrelated parts that align to provide society’s biological and social needs. The main economy is to provide goods and services to society.
The economy brings about functionalism in which one member relies on another part of the society for the things they cannot produce.
The interdependent parts of the society are considered social institutions such as government, education, healthcare, and family.
The functionalism theory cannot effectively explain social change. It also has repetitive patterns of behavior.
Conflict theory views the society where its parts compete for the available limited resources. These resources include food, housing, education, and political resources. Social institutions reflect this in such that they maintain the social structure of inequality. In an economic view, the desire to make profits leads to the exploitation of some people.
it is criticized for focusing on the stability of societies
Symbolic interactionism. Focuses on the meanings given to human interactions. The social scientist looks for patterns of interaction between individuals.
Constructivism is a part of the symbolic interaction theory that proposes that reality is what humans construct it to be the welfare of the public
- 2. What is the dual labor market and the reason for its existence?
Demand and labor supply are the reasons for a dual labor market; money that workers in America get varies with the occupation one is involved in according to experience, education, and training level.
Industrial expansion; allows surplus laborer’s in various sectors of the economy.
Growth mechanisms are not the same at different development stages and thus resulting in a dual labor market.
References
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Hirsch, B. (2016). Dual labor markets at work: The impact of employers’ use of temporary agency work on regular workers’ job stability. ILR Review, 69(5), 1191-1215.