Industrial Sociology

An Introduction
 Industrial Sociology
• Social nature of work and related phenomena.

• Social organizations of work place.

• Pattern of interaction among people.

• Analysis of how the occupational / industrial structure

and individual occupations articulate with other
segments of society.
 Industrialization and Social Change

• How industrialization changed the economy and

society:

i- New forms of energy

ii- Centralization of work in factories
iii- manufacturing and Mass Production
iv- Specialization
v- Wage labour
• August Comte

- Law of three stages

• The third stage- Positive stage

• Social Structure / Social Order

• Social Statics and Social Dynamics
• Emile Durkheim

• Division of labour
Mechanical

Social Solidarity

Organic
• Law

• Mechanical solidarity in characterized by Repressive

Law

• Organic solidarity in characterized by Restitutive Law

• Max Weber

• The theory of Social and Economic Organization

• Bureaucracy

• Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

• Karl Marx

• Historical Materialism

• The Dialectic

• Consciousness

• Alienation
• Four basic components of alienation

i- Alienation from Productive activity

ii- Alienation from the object of activities- The Product

iii- Alienation from their fellow workers

iv Alienation from their own human potential