Informal Agency of Social Control - Workplace

Question 1

Workplace as informal agency of social control

Answer 1

Workers are socialised into informal rules that underpin work

such as the Duties and Obligations associated with the role and status of being a worker

Question 2

Feminism

Answer 2

Social control is enforced through fear of losing jobs and wanting promotions

Especially relevant for women

• Have to work harder than men to get promotions for higher salaries
  -To be on equal pay as a man in the same/similar role

Better roles within the company
-Mainly male dominated

Easier for men to get promotions, thus social control is less important for men
-less to fear

Question 3

(-) Weakness for Feminism

Answer 3

• Doesn’t take age, ethnicity or class into consideration
• Generalises the idea that men have higher paid jobs and higher roles in most businesses when this may not be the case for many companies

Question 4

Durkheim

Functionalism

integration

Answer 4

Durkheim says the professional association integrates individual members into an occupational group

Through training and code of conduct, social control is kept

Question 5

(-) Functionalism

Answer 5

Doesn’t look after the root of how social control is really kept and why it sometime may not be followed