Ch 8 Soc 430
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- service sector
- workers who provide personal services such as education, health care, communication, restaurant meals, legal representation, entertainment, and so forth
- care work
- face-to-face activity in which one person meets the needs of another who cannot fully care for her or himself
- power
- the ability to force a person to do something even against his or her will
- authority
- the acknowledged right of someone to supervise and control others' behavior
- relationship-specific investment
- time spent on activities such as childrearing that are valuable only in a person's current relationship
- formal sector
- the part of a nation's economy that consists of jobs that meet legal standards for minimum wages, are relatively longlasting and secure, include fringe benefits such as contributions to social security or health insurance, often have possiblities for advancement and are sometimes unionized
- informal sector
- the part of a nation's economy that consists of temporary or casual jobs that sometimes offer illegal subminimum wages and that have little security, little possibility for advancement, and no fringe benefits
- role overload
- the state of having too many roles with conflicting demands
- spillover
- the fact that stressful events in one part of a person's daily life often spill over into other parts of her or his life
- flextime
- a policy that allows employees to choose, within limits, when they will begin and end their working hours
- parental leave
- time off from work to care for a child
- responsive workplace
- a work setting in which job conditions are designed to allow employees to meet their family responsibilites more easily