SOCIOL 2V06 : 2V06 Tuesday November 20th LECTURE.docx

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2V06
• Professor: Tu Budros

Document Summary

Kanter believes that the number of women relative to men in a workplace is extremely significant. She says that the demographics of a workplace is extremely important. Kanter is especially interested in these groups because you tend to commonly find these groups in management. These are groups that have two social types in them. Dominants, who are men, and tokens, who are women. You must strive to be in the dominant group. They choose what the norms are; they decide everything about the atmosphere of the workplace. You do not want to be a token. People in this social position are in the numerical minority. Talk about sexually skewed groups, dominant, and tokens. Talk about the percentage of women and men in workplaces. Be able to answer whether each theory is rationalist or naturalist or structuralist. Performance pressures, the pursuit of invisibility, and the fear of success.