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    Theorists Barry Glassner and Antonio Gramschi

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    In five pages this paper compares the sociological theories of these writers regarding work ethic and class.

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    Califonia - Davis. Both are interested in work and class sociology studies. Mass production is dwindling, how will we definite our work ethic in the future. The two  theorists and writers will be compared. Antonio Gamsci Antonio Gramsci (1891 - 1937), a leading Italian Marxist. Was an intellectual, a journalist and a major theorist who spent  his last eleven years in Mussolinis prisons. During this time, he wrote almost 3000 pages in 32 notebooks, which in turn were smuggled out of prison and printed in Italian  after the war. Gramschi is considered the first Marxist theorist to explore the concept of revolutionary change as an ideological-cultural struggle. He posed one of his major premises,  in the form of a question, in his Notebooks: "is it better to "think", without having a critical awareness, ... or, on the other hand, is it better  to work out consciously and critically ones own conception of the world?". One of the things to be remembered about this theorist is his constant emphasis on work, both in  the understanding of ones personal and community world - as in to work about being aware, or understanding; but also in the participation within the labor force. He felt that  there should be working class intellectuals, and that one way that these workers allowed themselves to be controlled was by not asking enough questions. He truly believed in peoples  intuitive ability to understand the world and correspondingly change it. Americanism and Fordism: Gramsci states: "It is worth drawing attention to the way in which industrialists (Ford in particular)  have been concerned with the sexual affairs of their employees and with their family arrangements in general. One should not be misled, any more than in the case of prohibition, 

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