Courses
SOCI3026 Work and Society (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- Year 2 standing and (SOCI1005 Invitation to Sociology or CHSS1005 Understanding Society: An Introduction to Sociology)
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
This course provides an introduction to sociological studies of work. It will examine how work is culturally understood and socially organized as a human activity, with special focus on employment as a social relationship. It seeks to sensitize students to the changing significance of work as a central human activity, the political-economic conditions of social forms of work and the implications of varying institutional arrangements of work, with special emphasis on conditions of work and workers in Hong Kong and Mainland China.