So, /his/, what are your thoughts on specialization ?
I get along better with generalists, and am sort of one in terms of my knowledge and education, but more and more the world as a whole is moving towards a demand for hyperspecialized technocrats.
I'm not sure I'm qualified to comment
>>406117
What do you mean?
>>406117
Specialization is an economic reaction to rising population, low wage structured corporations, and improperly designed ontological presentations of knowledge we give to even young students.
>>406315
Subtle.
>>406322
In Das Kapital, Marx says that specialization alienates the worker from the product of his labor, also that it sinks the worker to the level of a commodity. But what are some arguments against it, or defending his claim?
>>406347
One argument against is that certain specialists are on such a level and are such a rare commodity that they've a lot of power over how and whom they work for. In fact, some people will be asked on their opinion or given completely free hand to conduct reports and the like, solely because they're specialists and so much above everyone else around them. And when you're on that level, it's hard to say that the specialist is alienated from their work.
On the other hand of the spectra you've generalists and in the work force it's these kind of guys that you put in positions as administrators and managers since they don't need extreme knowledge about everything but rather just the fundamentals different fields to work as the "spider in the net".
I don't have any sources but this is my experience with knowledge-based professions. Take it with a grain of salt.
>>406117
Business, rather Processing has always been a Vertical organizational process, that is, compartmentalization occurs throughout an organization where the left hand does not understand the right hand but hands out a product to be consumed.
Vertical (Specialization) management of separate processes (periods of history) occurs within each compartment, ie. a Manager for each component that makes the whole.
There is a new paradigm within Business whereabouts Managers are Horizontal and manage processes across different compartments and specialize in Horizontal processes.
Horizontal Managers (Generalists) are more informed about history and how it is delivered to consumers than Vertical managers(Specialists).
If the Horizontal paradigm was relevant 150 years ago then history would be approached today from the Generalist approach with Specialization being subordinate to Generalization.
>>406347
Man, I covered this in a Globalization class before, but i STILL don't know how he goes from specialization to alienation. It doesn't seem based in any reality.
>>406518
Imagine you work on an assembly line in a factory that makes boots. All you do every day is glue the soles onto the boots, nothing else. You could do that job for 20 years and have no idea how to make a complete boot. Because this task requires no skill or knowledge, your labor has little to no value as anyone with a pair of hands can do the same task with minimal training.
>>406588
This seems more an issue of industrialization than specialization. The value of specialized labor in (what most generally classify as) post-industrial jobs, such as financial sector employment, actuary science, etc. are generally valued highly and do not alienate the employee.
The really obvious lack of detailed and specific reading in this thread is worrisome. The use of concepts and theory is facile in the extreme.
Except for >>406315
>>406714
Fuck off you American twat.
>>406892
Fuck you cunt, alienation isn't caused by specialisation.
>>406714
Well you aren't helping. I'd love to see what people have to discuss but we never really bothered with Marxism when I took my B.s. in Sociology. Weber and Durkheim got a lot of room among the classical readers but not Marx.
>>406352
>I say it's also a product of the growing body of knowledge inside some fields.
I covered that regarding ontological representation. You only need to specialize when information is hard to get, disorganized, conflicting, expensive, etc.
>>406117
>diognese
>Euclid
Add Raphael, Borgia Pope dude, and Michaelangelo.
Is there a labeled version of this? There must be.
