Industrial Sociology 1: Theories and Practices

SOCI 3008 Industrial Sociology 1 is concerned with the interrelationship of society and industry or industrial activity. It involves the application of sociological theory and method to the problems that arise in the process of producing goods and services in modern society. These arrangements emerged with the industrial revolution and marked the beginning of the societal form that we have come to call industrial society. The course begins by locating industrial society in the context of human development. Associated with this is the emergence of sociology as a way of understanding the profound changes in human relations and social organization associated with the industrial revolution. In the sections that follow, the course examines the sociology of work, the sociology of industrial relations, industrial and post industrial society, the sexual division of labor in the Caribbean, industrialization in the Caribbean, technology
and its effect on relations at the workplace and the impact of the technological revolution of the late twentieth century on the organization of industrial production.