SOAN 2040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Ingroups And Outgroups, Human Capital, Tokenism
4 Mar 2016
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Chapter 12 managing diversity: racial and ethnic divisions at work. Imagine for a moment you took a job at the smithfield packing company in tar heel, north carolina. This is the largest pork-processing plant in the world, and it puts meat on millions of breakfast tables every day. The counties surrounding tar heel provide relatively few job opportunities, but this plant has a staggering turnover rate, largely because the work is so dangerous, dirty and painful. A journalist worked in this plant and saw virtually all aspect of social interaction depended on the colour of one"s skin. Duff (the name of the journalist) found more than management, the workers see one another as the problem, and they see the competition in skin tones. Beginning with the chicago school at the beginning of the twentieth century, sociologist has long sought to understand the work experience of marginalized racial and ethnic groups.
