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Discuss Work & Negative Views about It. What Are the Qualities of Satisfying Work?
Summary: This essay was written for a subject known as Systems of Knowledge in Malta. This subject aims to give students sitting for A-levels to gain a holistic education.
To discuss work, one must first of all try to define work. Once one starts to think about this definition however, one finds that there are as many definitions of work as there are people. Experts such as sociologists have been trying to reach a definite answer, yet they can never agree between them. Although it is accepted that work is that time which is not leisure, one is then confounded with trying to find a definition for leisure. Stanley Parker reached a compromise by dividing our time in five sections, merging from pure work to pure leisure. However this difficulty in defining work should point out that these many different definitions lead to different attitudes, with the result that one can never generalise.
Although some may find work to be negative, this those not mean that this is the prevailing idea. Within the same society, one is...
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