WEEK 17 and 18: LABOUR AND MEDIA Flashcards
Bureaucratization
the process by which a group, organization or social movement increasingly relies on technical rational decision-making in the pursuit of efficiency
Weber bureaucracy
- division of labour
2.hierarchy of authority - written rules and regulation
4.impersonality - employment based on technical qaulfications
Mcdonalidization
the wide-ranging process of rationalization occurring across Western Capitalist Societies (Principles of McDonald being emulated by other organizations)
Components of Mcdonaldization
Efficiency
predictablity
calculability
substation of non human tech
control
The iron law of oligarchy
The principle of organizational life under which even a democratic organization will eventually develop into a bureaucracy ruled by a few individuals
The Scientific Management Approach
Emphasized maximum work efficiency and productivity through scientific planning of the labour process
Breaking down industrial processes to be precisely timed and organized will create efficiency
Widespread impact on the organization of industrial production and on workplace politics
The feminist Mystique
Freidman wrote a book on educated housewives and started interviewing educated housewives about expressed dissatisfaction with their lives
Women reported feeling empty and depressed by couldnt understand why because they were socialized to believe that being a housewife was the image of happiness
FEMINIST MYSTIQUE WAS THE PROBLEM
Femininity being the end goal and source of happiness for a women - this was a myth
The Second Shift
Women live two work lives
The first shift in the labour force (paid labour in the public sector) and a second shift at home (unpained labour in the private sphere)
Media
technological processes that facilitate communication between a sender and a receiver
Corporate concentration of media
Corporate concentration of media ownership means mass media is increasingly owned and controlled by fewer high-media corporations
Often results in fewer viewpoints being expressed and specific media agendas being pushed
The power elite (mills)
Idea diversity
the range of viewpoints expressed in the media marketplace of ideas
Demographic diversity
how the media addresses and represents interests from a diversity of people with a variety of identities and backgrounds
New media
accessible on demand, digital, interactive, encouraging user comments and feedback
Whenever, wherever
Eg. podcasts, social media, live streams
Social Media
A type of new media allowing for the creation and online sharing of information in communities and networks
Alternative media
alternative information to mainstream media in a given context (blogs, websites, community newspapers, public broadcasting radio etc)
