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CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY TO THE NATURE AND FUNCTION OF WORK AND ITS RELEVANCE TO SOCIETIES OF THE THIRD WORLD
Author(s) -
Cherns Albert
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1080/00207598408247518
Subject(s) - entitlement (fair division) , work (physics) , politics , relevance (law) , dimension (graph theory) , function (biology) , neglect , sociotechnical system , developing country , third world , civilization , psychology , positive economics , sociology , engineering ethics , economic growth , development economics , political science , economics , management , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , mathematics , mathematical economics , evolutionary biology , psychiatry , pure mathematics , biology
It is argued that the concept of work is central to consideration of the future both of the industrialized and the Third World. Work must be sharply distinguished from paid employment to which we cannot look to provide entitlement to full citizenship, a role which it has acquired over a comparatively short period of time in industrial civilization. Work and education are artificially divided, the price for which is greatly higher in the developing than in the developed world. Sociotechnical assessment should be undertaken to ensure that the selection of technologies for use in developing countries will meet their requirements for the encouragement and growth of social and political as well as manual skills. There is a need for community processes to be studied and understood without neglect of their historical dimension.