Why do people work? How is work experienced? What is the difference between work and labour? These are some of the questions we will tackle in this seminar. We will start with some general overviews expounding on the distinction between work and labour while bearing in mind that this separation in other languages does not exist. As Susana Narotzky (2018, 31) formulates: “English-speaking scholars have often been using a distinction between ‘work’ and ‘labour’, where labour is defined as human effort which pertains to capitalist relations of production, and work describes the rest of human energy expenditure in relation to non-capitalist realms […].” The problem with this distinction is not only that it is linguistically non-universal, but that even capitalist forms of labour are not void of creativity, or meaningful experiences. Such critique alerts one to expand the view beyond Marxist theories and to see work as an important part of the human experience that determines what kind of relationship we have with other humans, and what kind of position we might take up in a social setting (Harvey and Krohn-Hansen 2018). Work is central to human activity because through work people create themselves, they create new relationships, things, or objects. Most importantly, people value work in itself: as an activity that facilitates the engagement with the world. In other words, work is often carried out not only to survive but also for the maintenance of the common good, or the reproduction of the social (Harris 2007). We will investigate work ethnographically and comparatively in different cultural contexts of the world prioritizing thereby postcolonial societies. Care, unemployment, creativity, servitude, repetition, but also leisure are some of the concepts and practices through which we will approach work.
Dear Students,
So that you will be prepared for the start of the seminar, I request you to watch two videos. Both videos delineate what social anthropology is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2IUVnnteNs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5aglbgTEig
Furthermore, for getting ready to our course, I request you to check out the following website: https://www.anthrowrites.com/readingtheory
Here, you can find useful blogs as well as videos about how to read and interpret anthropological texts. Please keep in mind (!) anthropological writing is different than writings in other social sciences, so it is worth checking this out, if you want to keep the pace with the course.
Further resources while reading the texts and clarifying anthropological terms and concepts:
https://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/
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30-M-Soz-M4a Arbeits- und Wirtschaftssoziologie a | Alternativ zu Seminar 1 und Seminar 2: großes Seminar | Studienleistung
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30-M-Soz-M4b Arbeits- und Wirtschaftssoziologie b | Alternativ zu Seminar 1 und Seminar 2: großes Seminar | Studienleistung
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30-M-Soz-M4c Arbeits- und Wirtschaftssoziologie c | Alternativ zu Seminar 1 und Seminar 2: großes Seminar | Studienleistung
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30-M-Soz-M8a Soziologie der globalen Welt a | Seminar 1 | Studienleistung
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30-M-Soz-M8b Soziologie der globalen Welt b | Seminar 1 | Studienleistung
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30-M-Soz-M8c Soziologie der globalen Welt c | Seminar 1 | Studienleistung
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30-WS-GTI Globaler Handel und Ungleichheit | Forschungsseminar | Studienleistung
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38-M2-KV Theoretische Grundlagen | Kunst - Mensch - Gesellschaft | Studienleistung
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Die verbindlichen Modulbeschreibungen enthalten weitere Informationen, auch zu den "Leistungen" und ihren Anforderungen. Sind mehrere "Leistungsformen" möglich, entscheiden die jeweiligen Lehrenden darüber.
Requirements for Active Participation:
Students are expected to come to the sessions regularly and prepared (reading the mandatory literature carefully) and to actively participate in the discussions.
Requirements for Extra Credit Points:
Additional credit points can be obtained through the submission of an independent term paper (max.8000 words), which thematically relates to the topic of the seminar.
Zu dieser Veranstaltung existiert ein Lernraum im E-Learning System. Lehrende können dort Materialien zu dieser Lehrveranstaltung bereitstellen: