Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais (Jul 2006)

Towards a propaedeutics of the sociology of work

  • Ana Paula Marques

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5433/2176-6665.2006v11n1p11
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 11 – 24

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In this paper it is intended to build a reflection on the Sociology of Work and on the centrality of the concept of "work" in contemporary societies. The experience deriving from the teaching of this discipline in the last years, allows the author to assume that the Sociology of Work, before being a specific disciplinary field, is SociologyTo reinforce this, some previous and introductory considerations to this discipline are presented, trying to stimulate a critical understanding of the issues underlying the different aspects that work and labour present to us. .

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