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  2. Industrial sociology - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of Industry 4.0, showing the four "industrial revolutions" with a brief English description. Industrial sociology, until recently a crucial research area within the field of sociology of work, examines "the direction and implications of trends in technological change, globalization, labour markets, work organization, managerial practices and employment relations" to "the extent to ...

  3. Construction hiring in 'wait-and-see mode' amid interest rate ...

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    Construction job openings dropped nearly 40% from a year ago in October, according to a separate report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics released Tuesday. Contractors hired 293,000 workers ...

  4. Sociology - Wikipedia

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    The sociology of work, or industrial sociology, examines "the direction and implications of trends in technological change, globalization, labour markets, work organization, managerial practices and employment relations to the extent to which these trends are intimately related to changing patterns of inequality in modern societies and to the ...

  5. Construction - Wikipedia

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    The construction industry contributes significantly to many countries' gross domestic products . Global expenditure on construction activities was about $4 trillion in 2012. In 2022, expenditure on the construction industry exceeded $11 trillion a year, equivalent to about 13 percent of global GDP. This spending was forecasted to rise to around ...

  6. Market trend - Wikipedia

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    In a secular bull market, the prevailing trend is "bullish" or upward-moving. The United States stock market was described as being in a secular bull market from about 1983 to 2000 (or 2007), with brief upsets including Black Monday and the Stock market downturn of 2002, triggered by the crash of the dot-com bubble. Another example is the 2000s ...

  7. Economic sociology - Wikipedia

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    Economic sociology is the study of the social cause and effect of various economic phenomena. The field can be broadly divided into a classical period and a ...

  8. Industrial society - Wikipedia

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    In sociology, an industrial society is a society driven by the use of technology and machinery to enable mass production, supporting a large population with a high capacity for division of labour. Such a structure developed in the Western world in the period of time following the Industrial Revolution , and replaced the agrarian societies of ...

  9. Social constructionism - Wikipedia

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    Social constructionism is a term used in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory.The term can serve somewhat different functions in each field; however, the foundation of this theoretical framework suggests various facets of social reality—such as concepts, beliefs, norms, and values—are formed through continuous interactions and negotiations among society's members, rather ...