SOCIOL 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Consciousness Raising, Reverse Discrimination, Affirmative Action
28 Dec 2016
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Socio106 lecture 18 inequality regimes in dimensions of difference. Inequality regimes: all organizations have inequality regimes, defined as loosely interrelated practices, processes, actions, and meanings that result in and maintain class, gender, and racial inequalities within particular organizations. Inequality regimes are highly various in other ways; they also tend to be fluid and changing. Race refers to socially defined differences based on physical characteristics, culture, and historical domination and oppression, justified by entrenched beliefs: ethnicity may accompany race, or stand alone, as a basis for inequality. Organizing processes that produce inequality: organizations vary in the practices and processes that are used to achieve their goals; these practices and processes also produce class, gender, and racial inequalities, organizing the general requirements of work. The general requirements of work in organizations vary among organizations and among organizational levels: organizing class hierarchies. Techniques also vary for organizing class hierarchies inside work organizations.
