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Post by joshpace on Nov 27, 2017 19:45:40 GMT
Division of labour is a consequence of social constructions that we might not pay attention to, in particular the social constructions within institutions. Institutions assign “roles” to be performed by various actors, through different types of performances, such as “father-role”, “teacher-role”, “cook”, etc. As specialization increases in number as well as in size and sophistication, a civilization's culture contains more and more sections of knowledge specific to given roles or tasks, sections which become more and more foreign to non-specialists. For example, not everyone can become a doctor and only those who graduate school and get a PhD can have that role. This has also placed a social construction that you must be educated in a certain area before you can pursue a career, which is why going to college or university is so important in North America.
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