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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES

The University of the West Indies Course Code 02/./..

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INSTRUCTIONS:Each page must be signed by the Examiners and where applicable, the University Examiner and/orthe External Examiner. Where the examination does not require a University Examiner, the form must be signed bythe First and Second Examiners. Completed forms should be handed to the Assistant Registrar (Examinations). TheEXTERNAL EXAMINER is requested to sign the question paper and return it with comments, if any, (on a separatesheet) , to the Assistant Registrar (Examinations).

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First Examiner University Examiner

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Second Examiner Ext ernal Examiner (where applicable)

Date: 2002/ / Date: 2002/ /

EXAMINATIONS OF DECEMBER 2002

Code and Name of Course: SY32E INDUSTRIAL SOCIOLOGY I: Paper:THEORY & METHODS

Date and Time: Duration: 2 HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: This paper has 1 page and 7 questions.

Answer ANY THREE (3) questions.

1. Watson (1995) suggests that pragmatic pluralism is a theoretical strategy that can befollowed in investigating any particular phenomenon in the broad area of industrial

sociology. Drawing from any two strands offer an explanation of individual behaviour in theworkplace.

2. Philosophically, the postmodernists are incorrect in their interpretation of the Modern age.Rather than having exhausted its possibilities it has yet to realize them. Discuss this

statement with reference to Post-industrial society theory.

3. What is the value of Tomaneys concept of Flexible Taylorism in furthering ourunderstanding of the effect of the new technologies on the relations between managementand workers at the workplace.

4. Bravermans analysis (of the labour process) played such a crucial role in later debates

because he combined a renewal of Marxs categories and an explanation of the dominanttrends in the world of work. Provide a critique of Bravermans thesis.

5. How is the current revolution in the information technology and knowledge-based workactivities changing the world of work?

6. Although efforts at industrialization in the Caribbean in the contemporary period represent areplay of the efforts made in the 1960s, the reasons for the lack of success in the two periods

are different. Discuss this statement.

7. What are the main elements of the arguments of Kerr, Dunlop et al in regard to IndustrialSociety? What are the main theoretical and methodological criticisms that have beenlevelled against these arguments?