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Why people work? Undoubtedly you have periodically asked yourself the same
Why people work? Undoubtedly you have periodically asked yourself the same
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2023-11-23
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问题
Why people work? Undoubtedly you have periodically asked yourself the same question, perhaps focused on why you have to work. "Self interest" in its broadest sense, including the interests of family and friends, is a basic motivation for work in all societies. But self-interest can involve more than providing for subsistence or accumulating wealth. For instance, among the Maori, a Polynesian people of the South Pacifica desire for approval, a sense of duty, a wish to conform to custom and tradition, a feeling of emulation (竞争), and a pleasure in craftsmanship are additional reasons for working. Even within the United States, we cannot understand work as simply a response to economic necessity. Studies show that the vast majority of Americans would continue to work even if they inherited enough money to live comfort- ably.
When people work, they gain a contributing place in society. The fact that what they receive pay for their work indicates that what they do is needed by other people and that what they are a necessary part of the social fabric. Work is also a major social mechanism for placing people in the larger social structure and for providing them with identities. In the United States, it is a blunt and ruthlessly public fact that to do nothing is to be nothing and to do little is to be little. Work is commonly seen as the measure of an individual.
Sociologist Melvin L. Kohn and his associates have shown some of the ways work affects our lives. Generally, people who engage in self-directed work come to value self-direction more highly, to be more open to new ideas and to be less authoritarian in their relationships with others. Moreover, they develop self-conceptions consistent with these values, and as parents they pass these characteristics on to their children. Our work, then, is an important socializing experience that influences who and what we are. [br] In the second paragraph, the author points out that work and a corresponding salary mean that______.
选项
A、the worth of the worker is recognized by the society
B、the worker is better than any other person
C、the worker is able to support himself or herself
D、the worker is leading a very successful life
答案
A
解析
第二段第一、二句指出,通过工作,人们可以为社会做出贡献,他们的工资表明他们的工作是他人所需要的,他们是社会组织(social fabric)中的必要的一员。这一段最后两句总结说,在美国,严酷的现实(blunt and ruthlessly public fact) 是:游手好闲者只属于无用之辈,只能做一点无足轻重的事。所以,社会将工作(能力)看作是衡量一个人的尺度,当然,这个尺度的具体体现就是工资。
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