SOC 205 Lecture Notes - Mcjob, Waste Management
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Over the course of a lifetime, college graduates make 84% more than their high school educated counterparts. 70-85% of jobs in ads [networking- who you know] Audit studies: employers are less likely to. Arabic (or arabic influenced: ex) rasheed, rise of black power; nation of islam. Improvised tend to correspond with geography & ses. Mariane bertrand: 1,300 help ads, same resume(s, name changed, race or socioeconomic background, hard to disentangle. A history of incarceration is linked to lower employment & income. Disrupted social patterns: difficult to get back into networks when having been out of it. Black-white testers in milwaukee: 23 years old, college students, similar verbal skills & interactional styles, physically attractive, 5"10""-6", similar dress, tester training, resumes made to appear similar. Randomly assigned non-violent drug charge for cocaine possession. 2 teams of white, black, latino testers. Positive responses by race, ethnicity, and criminal record. Categorical exclusion: automatic rejection of minority candidate in favor of white applicant.
