SOC446H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Regular Sequence, Participant Observation, Organizational Commitment
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The wellbread bakery (a fictitious name) is a medium-sized factory production bakery in the south-east of england. The mill, in its new wellbread guise, continued the old policy of allowing flour customers to get too deeply into debt, and then buying them out. Salesmen, as they caustically remark along the loading bays in the early mornings, are those who said no" to the managerial offer to become a supervisor. A research diary: getting to know about the fiddle. The salesmen had ways of making money on the side but no one would reveal how: the salesmen would steal the baked goods and sell them to wholesalers. The aim is to to illustrate the utterly confusing normality with which the criminal enterprise can sometimes be clothed. I have used the everyman performance" rule to render experience ordinary in key constitutive areas (socialisation, customer interaction, culture, role and motives) of bread salesmen"s culture.
