SOC102H1 Chapter Notes -Canadian Indian Residential School System, Workplace Violence, Vancouver Art Gallery
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A culture of acceptable workplace violence in group homes. Workplace violence employee abused, threatened, intimidated, assaulted b/c employment. Profession as a useful concept for sociological analysis. Study: historical research, examine canadian professional regulation. 1950s 1960s profession definition trait approach : workers frequent close contact w/ patients = higher chances. 1st study: 130 workers, 5 ontario developmentally disabled homes: 90% reported workplace violence, list of characterizes distrusted professions from other occupations. Work = specialize technique w/ supporting theories. Mainly physical gesture, thrown objects, verbal & written threat, 1970s profession definition emphasized power physical & verbal sexual harassment, physical abuse: 4:00pm midnight shift more intense violence, more shifts taken = more likely experience violence. Freidson (1983): no single definition of profession that works across time. Assumed as norm in this workplace: management aware of violence, but expected of job to receive it. Suggest coping strategy = taking it like a man . Those accepted violence, promoted, continued the practices.
