ABSTRACT
Part of industrial sociology is to discover the ways in which people in industry define their life-positions and learn sets of symbolisms, and to explain the organisational consequences of the views which people hold of themselves (Turner, 1971, p. vii). One aspect of the subjective experience of workinvolvement and its alternatives was dealt with in Chapter 13. There are a number of other relevant concepts, and our first task is to try to define them in relation to each other and to see to what extent different terms are used in the same or very similar senses. There are two broad groups of concepts: those relating to the evaluation of work as a social activity or institution, and those relating to the subjective experience of particular work roles.
