Chat with AIExam 14: Capitalism and the Economy
Which theorist claimed that modern capitalism would not have arisen without the Protestant Reformation,which created the necessary social conditions for capitalism by creating theological insecurity and instilling a doctrine of predestination?
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An increasing number of workers are working from home today.This blurs the line between work and family.Compare how the blurred lines between family and work are similar (or dissimilar)to an economy dominated by small-scale artisan labor/subsistence farming.
(33) VerifiedBefore the end of the eighteenth century,the economy was dominated by small-scale farming (or hunting/gathering)and handicrafts,like women sewing garments and men working as blacksmiths.Most of this work was done at the family home,and children and older people tended to help.There were fewer boundaries between family and work.
Today,an increasing number of people are working at home,and the psychological line between work and home is there,but not the physical one.People working out of their homes (e.g.,accountants,computer programmers)feel a lot of competition between what they see as household chores and work chores.While these chores were historically similar,today they are very different.This creates homes/offices that have lack of privacy,too many distractions (from both directions),and competition between work that needs to be done for profit and work that needs to be done for the family.
In contrast to Simmel,Karl Marx believed that friendship under capitalism is not possible because:
(30) According to Hochschild,Jacobs,and Gerson,why don't workers take advantage of family-friendly policies?
(40) What effect did the agricultural revolution in Europe have on the transition to capitalism?
(32) At the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth century,a massive transition was propelled by the development of new technologies,including:
(34) The Obama White House tends to differ from the previous one because:
(43) Feminist sociologists claim that the family wage is a patriarchal bargain because it implies that:
(37) The money that working women earned was not expected to provide for a family.According to the textbook,what group did this assumption harm the most?
(41) If you are a salaried worker and you miss a day of work,how does your salary change?
(36) Discuss the theoretical perspectives of the transition to capitalism of Adam Smith,Georg Simmel,Karl Marx,and Max Weber.How are they similar? How are they different? Which do you believe provides the most useful framework for understanding capitalism,and why?
(38) According to the textbook,what characterized the "new markets" that are part of globalization?
(30) What happened to many serfs as a result of the enclosure movement?
(31) What percentage of working mothers with children age 17 and under say that full-time work is the ideal situation for them?
(27) What is one advantage of piecework payment over in-kind payment?
(30) According to the textbook,in a capitalist economic system,the price and distribution of goods and services are determined by what?
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